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all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible. He fell down in a trance. Chaucer.

The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.

Abounding in tresses. J. Baillie.

Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.

Abounding with tufts. Both in the tufty frith and in the mossy fell. Drayton.

sted tumor, a tumor which is inclosed in a membrane called a cyst, connected with the surrounding parts by the neighboring cellular substance. -- Fatty tumor. See under Fatty. -- Innocent tumor, or Benign tumor, one which does not of itself threaten life, and does not usually tend to recur after extirpation. -- Mali…

Abounding with turf; made of, or covered with, turf. "The turfy mountains." Shak.

Of or pertaining to a twig or twigs; like a twig or twigs; full of twigs; abounding with shoots. " Twiggy trees." Evelyn.

Full of, or abounding in, twigs; twiggy. [R.] " Twigsome trees." Dickens.

Sounding alone. [Obs.] [sounds] intermixed with voice, Choral or unison. Milton.

Not tended; not dressed. See 4th Tent. The untented woundings of a father's curse Pierce every sense about thee! Shak.

A thin membrane surrounding the sporocarps of quillworts Isoetes).

Abounding with words; verbose. [Obs.] Shak.

Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument. Too verbose in their way of speaking. Ayliffe. -- Ver*bose"ly, adv. -- Ver*bose"ness, n.

or aureole, of oval shape, or composed of two arcs of circles usually represented as surrounding a divine personage. More rarely, an oval composed of two arcs not representing a glory; a solid oval, etc.

Abounding with vetches.

any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.

Abounding in, or covered with, fine hairs, or a woolly substance; shaggy with soft hairs; nappy.

Of or pertaining to vines; producing, or abounding in, vines. P. Fletcher.

viola, having catgut strings upon, and brass or steel wires under, the keyboard. These, sounding sympathetically with the strings, yield a peculiarly soft and silvery sound. It is now seldom used.