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To pour in; to infuse. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

A Newfoundland dog. Tennyson. Newfoundland dog (Zoöl.), a breed of large dogs, with shaggy hair, which originated in Newfoundland, noted for intelligence, docility, and swimming powers.

Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep. "A gulf profound." Milton.

In a profound manner. Why sigh you so profoundly Shak.

The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.

To found or cast anew. "Ancient bells refounded." T. Warton.

One who refounds.

To free from a state of confusion, or of being confounded. Milton.

Not confounded. Bp. Warburton.

Not founded; not built or established. Milton.

Abashed; confounded; discomfited. [Obs.] Chaucer.

mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata). Eng. Cyc.

removing. [Obs.] Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

hension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning. Profound and abstruse topics. Milman.

A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound. Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space. Carlyle.

To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.

d of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.