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The obligation by which a person, conveying a subject or a right, is bound to uphold that subject or right against every claim, challenge, or burden arising from circumstances prior to the conveyance; warranty. [Written also warrandise.] Craig.

A covenant real, whereby the grantor of an estate of freehold and his heirs were bound to warrant and defend the title, and, in case of eviction by title paramount, to yield other lands of equal value in recompense. This warranty has long singe become obsolete, and its place supplied by personal covenants for title. Am…

ers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a basin.

Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.

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

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

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

A temporary mark or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in marking out or dividing anything, as tithes, swaths to be mowed in common ground, etc.; -- called also wicker. [Prov. Eng.]

rous; consenting; complying; ready. Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound. Acts xxiv. 27. With wearied wings and willing feet. Milton. [Fruit] shaken in August from the willing boughs. Bryant.

Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows. "Willowed meads." Collins.

Abounding with willows. Where willowy Camus lingers with delight. Gray.

A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis). He bare a burden ybound with a broad list, In a withewyndes wise ybounden about. Piers Plowman.

Made of withes; like a withe; flexible and tough; also, abounding in withes. The stream is brimful now, and lies high in this little withy plantation. G. Eliot.

Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. "The woody wilderness." Bryant. Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove. Milton.

The quality or state of being wordy, or abounding with words; verboseness. Jeffrey.

as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth. Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. Milton.

Containing a worm; abounding with worms. "Wormy beds." Shak.

In France, an official government publication bound in yellow covers.

Covered or bound in yellow paper. Yellow-covered literature, cheap sensational novels and trashy magazines; -- formerly so called from the usual color of their covers. [Colloq. U. S.] Bartlett.

An embroidered zone surrounds her waist. Dryden. Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound. Collins.