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Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

Of or pertaining to cane or canes; abounding with canes. Milton.

Halliwell. -- To carry coals to Newcastle, to take things to a place where they already abound; to lose one's labor. -- To carry off (a) To remove to a distance. (b) To bear away as from the power or grasp of others. (c) To remove from life; as, the plague carried off thousands. -- To carry on (a) To carry farther;…

Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. Coleridge.

Abounding with charms. "His charmful lyre." Cowley.

Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms. Carlyle. They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed. Wordsworth.

Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.

Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile. Dryden.

ded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.

Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular. Tedious and circumstantial recitals. Prior. Circumstantial evidence (Law), evidence obtained from circumstances, which necessarily or usually attend facts of a particular nature, from which arises presumption. According to…

Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.

Resembling a click; abounding in clicks. "Their strange clicky language." The Century.

Abounding in cobwebs. "The cobwebbed cottage." Young.

Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.

Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.

Abounding in bark; resembling bark; barky.

An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England. Cotswold sheep, a long-wooled breed of sheep, formerly common in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, Eng.; -- so called from the Cotswold Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others.…

avalry covered the retreat. His calm and blameless life Does with substantial blessedness abound, And the soft wings of peace cover him round. Cowley.

Productive of, or abounding in, cramps. "This crampy country." Howitt.