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

Abounding in hummocks.

f 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. -- Huntin…

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.]

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.

Consisting of jungles; abounding with jungles; of the nature of a jungle.

Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly. [U.S.] Bartlett.

Consisting of, or abounding in, very minute laciniæ.

Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest. "The leafy month of June." Coleridge.

Abounding in ledges; consisting of a ledge or reef; as, a ledgy island.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, lichens; abounding in lichens; covered with lichens. G. Eliot.

A plant of the genus Glycyrrhiza (G. glabra), the root of which abounds with a juice, and is much used in demulcent compositions.

Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.

Consisting or partaking of marl; resembling marl; abounding with marl.

Abounding in mast; producing mast in abundance; as, the mastful forest; a mastful chestnut. Dryden.

Full of mast; abounding in acorns, etc.

Abounding in meat.

ma having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment…