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Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse. Browsings for the deer. Howell.

Abounding in bubbles; bubbling. Nash.

Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.

Infested or abounding with bugs.

Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

dge without arches is supported. Butment cheek (Carp.), the part of a mortised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear. Knight.

A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region. The creek . . . passes by two remarkable buttes of red conglomerate. Ruxton.

An abuttal; a boundary. Without buttings or boundings on any side. Bp. Beveridge.

Harsh-sounding.

Of or pertaining to cane or canes; abounding with canes. Milton.

capsula; hollow and fibrous. Capsular ligament (Anat.), a ligamentous bag or capsule surrounding many movable joints in the skeleton.

in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court. [Written also caravanserai and caravansera.]

bullet. Rim-fire cartridge, a cartridge in which the fulminate is contained in a rim surrounding its base. -- Cartridge bag, a bag of woolen cloth, to hold a charge for a cannon. -- Cartridge belt, a belt having pocket for cartridges. -- Cartridge box, a case, usually of leather, attached to a belt or strap, for ho…

An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.

that ordinary heigh, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.

A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes…

Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. Coleridge.

of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged. The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena. Whewell.

Abounding with charms. "His charmful lyre." Cowley.