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the observer is between the sun and a mass of cloud. The figures of the observer and surrounding objects are seen projected on the cloud, greatly enlarged and often encircled by rainbow colors.

Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.

A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe.

related to the true mulberry, used in Polynesia for making tapa cloth by macerating and pounding the inner bark, and in China and Japan for the manufacture of paper. It is seen as a shade tree in America.

fault of improperly uniting in one bill distinct and independent matters, and thereby confounding them. Burrill.

Having many sounds, or sounding much.

A distraining or levying of a distress; an impounding. Burrill.

A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction of the shaft and capital. Weale.

Imbued with nectar; mingled with nectar; abounding with nectar. Milton.

ing to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper. 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires. Milton. This darksome nether world her light Doth dim with horror and deformity. Spenser. All my nether shape thus grew transformed. Milton.

Full of news; abounding in information as to current events. [Colloq.]

Abounding with snow; snowy. [Obs.] Johnson.

s the brightest star in the sky. By July it had almost disappeared, after which faint surrounding nebulous masses were discovered, apparently moving radially outward from the star at incredible velocity.

A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may…

Abounding in nuts.

Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phraze at odds. Set them into confounding odds. Shak. I can not speak Any beginning to this peevish odds. Shak. At odds, in dispute; at variance. "These squires at odds did fall." Spenser. "He flashes into one gross crime or other, that sets us all at odds." Shak. --…

-- said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.

A small circular opening, and ring of moldings surrounding it, used in window tracery in Gothic architecture. [Written also oylet.]

An annual plant (Abelmoschus, or Hibiscus, esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo. [Written also ocra and ochra.]

Of or pertaining to the mouth; surrounding or lining the mouth; as, oral cilia or cirri.