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A ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.

ining to the yolk of eggs; as, the vitelline membrane, a smooth, transparent membrane surrounding the vitellus.

Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding. Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. Coleridge.

y congelation of lava in the conduit of a volcano and later exposed by the removal of surrounding rocks.

The region immediately surrounding a disk moving flatwise through air; -- so called because the air has a cyclic motion as in vortex ring.

n axis disposed in circular form, attains a more or less distinct separation from the surrounding medium and has many of the properties of a solid.

The act of wounding, or the state of being wounded. [Obs.]

Causing wounds; inflicting wounds; wounding.

The country rock bounding a vein laterally. Raymond.

the power of maintaining a nearly uniform temperature whatever the temperature of the surrounding air. See Homoiothermal.

Abounding in capacity to warm; giving warmth; as, a warmful garment. [R.] Chapman.

A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose.

A chamber surrounding a vessel or tube in which water may be circulated, thereby regulating the temperature or supply of heat to the vessel. Used in laboratory and manufacturing equipment. water- jacketed. Having a water jacket; -- as, a water-jacketed condenser.

Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.

Abounding in qualities which cause weariness; wearisome. -- Wea"ri*ful*ly, adv.

e action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.

Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn. See from the weedy earth a rivulet break. Bryant.

To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks. [Colloq.] Rodsmen were whackingtheir way through willow brakes. G. W. Cable.

Abounding in whin, gorse, or furze. A fine, large, whinny, . . . unimproved common. Sterne.

t contains. Parr. -- White of the eye (Anat.), the white part of the ball of the eye surrounding the transparent cornea.