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Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid. Both his hands most filthy feculent. Spenser.

Abounding in fens; fenny.

Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy. "Fenny snake." Shak.

Abounding in ferns.

Having, or abounding in, fins, as fishes; pertaining to fishes.

Made of fir; abounding in firs. In firry woodlands making moan. Tennyson.

Abounding with fish. [R.] "My fishful pond." R. Carew.

Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish. Pope.

Abounding with the plant called flag; as, a flaggy marsh.

Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach. Vegetables abound more with aërial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent. Arbuthnot.

Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart. Flinty rockFlinty state, a siliceous slate; -- basanite is here included. See Basanite.

Abounding with flocks; floccose.

Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.] Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. Jer. Taylor.

To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious. In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk. Joel iii. 18. The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl. Prof. Wilson.

Abounding with flowers. Craig.

Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.

Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama.

Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal. Lord Strut was not very flush in ready. Arbuthnot.

Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning. Shak.

In distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil. Knight.