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Abounding in money; wealthy; rich. [Obs.] Sherwood.

A figure, somewhat hatched-shaped, bounded by a semicircle and two inverted quadrants, and equal in area to the square ABCD inclosed by the chords of the four quadrants. [Written also pelicoid.] Math. Dict.

surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.

An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc.

The outer boundary of a body or figure, or the sum of all the sides.

pletion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion. Bacon. So spake the archangel Michael; then paused, As at the world's great period. Milton. Evils which shall never end till eternity hath a period. Jer. Taylor. This is the period of my ambition. Shak…

Hence: Any discourse or declamation abounding in acrimonious invective.

Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution. Harvey.

A genus of herbaceous plants, some of them having berries which abound in intensely red juice; poke, or pokeweed.

stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.

Abounding with pines. [Written also piney.] "The piny wood." Longfellow.

A Shakespearean word of disputed meaning; perh., "abounding in marsh marigolds." Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims. Shak.

point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound. Driven headlong from the pitch of heaven, down Into this deep. Milton. Enterprises of great pitch and moment. Shak. To lowest pitch of abject fortune. Milton. He lived when learning was at its highest pitch. Addison. The ex…

Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.

, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space. Here is the place appointed. Shak. What place can be for us Within heaven's bound Milton. The word place has sometimes a more confused sense, and stands for that space which any body takes up; and so the universe is…

Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations.

measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.

The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.

Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy. "Plashy fens." Milton. "The plashy earth." Wordsworth.

Abounding in platitudes; of the nature of platitudes; uttering platitudes. -- Plat`i*tu"di*nous*ness, n.