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Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal. Lord Strut was not very flush in ready. Arbuthnot.

Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning. Shak.

A boundary; a limit. [Obs.] Creech. Fold yard, an inclosure for sheep or cattle.

e, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. Spenser. The huge Earl Doorm, . . . Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey. Tennyson.

In distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil. Knight.

The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.

Dependent in form; conventional. Still in constraint your suffering sex remains, Or bound in formal or in real chains. Pope.

Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out. I have no mind of feasting forth to-night. Shak.

Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free. [R.] "It is of frank gift." Spenser.

The tithing itself. Bouvier. The servants of the crown were not, as now, bound in frankpledge for each other. Macaulay.

Abounding in frogs. Sherwood.

Abounding in fragments. [R.]

A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful, harmful, woeful.

The state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness. [Written also fulness.] "In thy presence is fullness of joy." Ps. xvi. 11.

bounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze. Gay.

y a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds. Hand gallop, a slow or gentle gallop.

alliwell. -- Gang week, Rogation week, when formerly processions were made to survey the bounds of parishes. Halliwell. -- Live gang, or Round gang, the Western and the Eastern names, respectively, for a gang of saws for cutting the round log into boards at one operation. Knight. -- Slabbing gang, an arrangement of…

y which treats of the simple properties of straight lines, circles, plane surface, solids bounded by plane surfaces, the sphere, the cylinder, and the right cone. -- Higher geometry, that pert of geometry which treats of those properties of straight lines, circles, etc., which are less simple in their relations, and o…

A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures.

ic, girdle. (Anat.) See under Pectoral, and Pelvic. -- To have under the girdle, to have bound to one, that is, in subjection.