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Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds.

A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows.

Full of milk; abounding with food. [R.] "Milkful vales." Sylvester.

Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.

Abounding with mines; like a mine. "Miny caverns." Thomson.

A story or legend abounding in miracles. [Obs.] When said was all this miracle. Chaucer. Miracle monger, an impostor who pretends to work miracles. -- Miracle play, one of the old dramatic entertainments founded on legends of saints and martyrs or (see 2d Mystery, 2) on events related in the Bible.

Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.

Having, or abounding with, mites.

Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as:

otes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty. "A monk out of his cloister." Chaucer. Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in the substantial vows of religion; but in other respects monks and regulars diffe…

; as, a monstrous birth. Locke. He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love ... is unnatural and monstrous in his affections. Jer. Taylor.

A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.

covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor. Carew.

Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams. Old trees are more mossy far than young. Bacon.

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

To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.

frequently spinose, shells, which are often highly colored inside; the rock shells. They abound in tropical seas.

an animal, to prevent eating or vicious biting. With golden muzzles all their mouths were bound Dryden. Muzzle sight. (Gun.) See Dispart, n., 2.

and the front of the head; as, the embryonic nasofrontal process which forms the anterior boundary of the mouth.

A Jew bound by a vow to lave the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time. The word is also used adjectively.