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Hence: Any discourse or declamation abounding in acrimonious invective.

Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution. Harvey.

An instrument for studying the motions of sounding bodies by optical means. It consists of a tube across the end of which is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give colored bands, the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations.

An instrument in which motion is produced by the vibrations of a sounding body.

An instrument for observing or exhibiting the motions or properties of sounding bodies; especially, an apparatus invented by König for testing the quality of musical strings.

ho is hoggish; a greedy person. [Low] Masked pig. (Zoöl.) See under Masked. -- Pig bed (Founding), the bed of sand in which the iron from a smelting furnace is cast into pigs. -- Pig iron, cast iron in pigs, or oblong blocks or bars, as it comes from the smelting furnace. See Pig, 4. -- Pig yoke (Naut.), a nickname…

Abounding with pines. [Written also piney.] "The piny wood." Longfellow.

A Shakespearean word of disputed meaning; perh., "abounding in marsh marigolds." Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims. Shak.

The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.

Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations.

easuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.

Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy. "Plashy fens." Milton. "The plashy earth." Wordsworth.

Abounding in platitudes; of the nature of platitudes; uttering platitudes. -- Plat`i*tu"di*nous*ness, n.

Capable of affording pleasure or satisfaction; gratifying; abounding in pleasantness or pleasantry. Planting of orchards is very . . . pleasurable. Bacon. O, sir, you are very pleasurable. B. Jonson. -- Pleas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Pleas"ur*a*bly, adv.

Having plenty; abounding; rich. The Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods. Deut. xxviii. 11.

Abounding with plots.

A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water. I'll sink him deeper than e'er plummet sounded. Shak.

Abounding in rain; rainy; pluvial. Sir T. Browne.

The dwarf wall surrounding the arena of an amphitheater, from the top of which the seats began.