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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.

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.…

To run through or over. The bounding steed courses the dusty plain. Pope.

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

Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding. "The creeky shore." Spenser.

Abounding in cresses. The cressy islets white in flower. Tennyson.

Having the qualities of chalk;abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk. Cretaceous acid, an old name for carbonic acid. -- Cretaceous formation (Geol.), the series of strata of various kinds, including beds of chalk, green sand, etc., formed in the Cretaceous period; -- called also…

Containing, or abounding in, culm or glance coal.

Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.