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Abounding with sap; full of sap; juisy; succulent.

Abounding with scabs; diseased with scabs.

Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish. "Scaly crocodile." Milton.

Abounding with springs. [Obs.]

Abounding with springs. [Obs.]

which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of occurence, exhibition, or action. "In Troy, there lies the scene." Shak. The world is a vast scene of strife. J. M. Mason.

of cast iron or defective castings suitable for remelting in the foundry; -- called also founding scrap, or cast scrap.

One of the smooth areas surrounding the tubercles of a sea urchin.

Pertaining to, or surrounding, scrobiculæ; as, scrobicular tubercles.

Abounding in scrog; also, twisted; stunted. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

th of England, in distinction from charcoal, which was brought by land. Sea-coal facing (Founding), facing consisting of pulverized bituminous coal.

Of a beautiful bluish green color, like sea water on soundings.

Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.

Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.

Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth. How he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious! Addison.

Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. [Obsoles.] Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign to his chaste design, Nor spared a useless, though a golden line. Wh…

A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.

Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade. The shady trees cover him with their shadow. Job. xl. 22. And Amaryllis fills the shady groves. Dryden.

Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. "A shelfy coast." Dryden.

Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell. "The shelly shore." Prior. Shrinks backward in his shelly cave. Shak.