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Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty. A god ready to pardon, gracious and merciful. Neh. ix. 17. So hallowed and so gracious in the time. Shak.…

Consisting of hail; abounding in hail. [R.] Bailey.

Full of grains; abounding with granular substances; granular.

The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state.

Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn. Spenser.

Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.

Pertaining to a natural order of trees and shrubs (Guttiferæ) noted for their abounding in a resinous sap.

Abounding in gyres. [Obs.]

The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair. Johnson.

Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of heath.

Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills. Sir W. Scott.

Abounding with herbs. "Fields poetically called herbose." Byrom.

Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country. "Hilly steep." Dryden.

Abounding in hummocks.

teeth. -- Hunting dog (Zoöl.), the hyena dog. -- Hunting ground, a region or district abounding in game; esp. (pl.), the regions roamed over by the North American Indians in search of game. -- Hunting horn, a bulge; a horn used in the chase. See Horn, and Bulge. -- Hunting leopard (Zoöl.), the cheetah. -- Hunting…

Abounding with husks; consisting of husks. Dryden.

Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty. "Icy chains." Shak. "Icy region." Boyle. "Icy seas." Pope.

Abounding in islands. [R.]

Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.

Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts.