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The act or process of compounding, or the state of being compounded, with mercury. [R.]

A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows.

An opening in the membranes surrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted.

An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.

Full of milk; abounding with food. [R.] "Milkful vales." Sylvester.

Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.

o assume a resemblance to (some other organism of a totally different nature, or some surrounding object), as a means of protection or advantage.

Abounding with mines; like a mine. "Miny caverns." Thomson.

A story or legend abounding in miracles. [Obs.] When said was all this miracle. Chaucer. Miracle monger, an impostor who pretends to work miracles. -- Miracle play, one of the old dramatic entertainments founded on legends of saints and martyrs or (see 2d Mystery, 2) on events related in the Bible.

Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.

Having, or abounding with, mites.

One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically (Founding), one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.

ing, or Moulding, machine. (a) (Woodworking) A planing machine for making moldings. (b) (Founding) A machine to assist in making molds for castings. -- Molding, or Moulding, mill, a mill for shaping timber. -- Molding, or Moulding, sand (Founding), a kind of sand containing clay, used in making molds.…

some sameness, or want of variety. At sea, everything that breaks the monotony of the surrounding expanse attracts attention. W. Irving.

Abounding in monsters. [R.] Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world. Milton.

covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor. Carew.

A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in titling.

Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams. Old trees are more mossy far than young. Bacon.

ether in the same part or in groups of parts. The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint. Grove.

mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.