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Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches. Language . . . affluent in expression. H. Reed. Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. Prior.

Of or pertaining to the algæ, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed.

Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might. Jer. Taylor.

An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.

rganic bodies; anatomical structure or organization. Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy. Dryden.

Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation.

lor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain. Milton.

mers called apparent magnitude. Reid. Apparent horizon, the circle which in a level plain bounds our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the earth and heavens, as distinguished from the rational horizon. -- Apparent time. See Time. -- Heir apparent (Law), one whose to an estate is indefeasible if he surviv…

licate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of any conic section, and bounded by the curve.

One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

Partaking of the nature of water, or abounding with it; watery. The aqueous vapor of the air. Tyndall.

Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government. Dryden. Arbitrary constant, Arbitrary function (Math.), a quantity of function that is introduced into the solution of a problem, and to which any value or form may at will be given, so that the solu…

Any small space, bounded by some part different in color or structure, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the wings of insects, or those by the veins of leaves; an areola.

Producing clay; -- applied to such earths as abound with argil. Kirwan.

ters used in the country about the Tigris and Euphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. See Cuneiform.

Bound by articles; apprenticed; as, an articled clerk.

Abounding with reeds; reedy.

th unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces. Insnared, assaulted, overcome, led bound. Milton.

called assignees, for the benefit of creditors. To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate. Kent.

is vested for the benefit of creditors. Assignment of dower, the setting out by metes and bounds of the widow's thirds or portion in the deceased husband's estate, and allotting it to her.