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To be superabundant; to abound. Rogers.

Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore. Pope. His golden sands and palmy wine. Goldsmith.

Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.

Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells. Milton.

Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat.

Abounding in pebbles. Thomson.

Abounding in money; wealthy; rich. [Obs.] Sherwood.

Hence: Any discourse or declamation abounding in acrimonious invective.

Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution. Harvey.

A genus of herbaceous plants, some of them having berries which abound in intensely red juice; poke, or pokeweed.

Abounding with pines. [Written also piney.] "The piny wood." Longfellow.

A Shakespearean word of disputed meaning; perh., "abounding in marsh marigolds." Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims. Shak.

Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.

Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations.

Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy. "Plashy fens." Milton. "The plashy earth." Wordsworth.

Abounding in platitudes; of the nature of platitudes; uttering platitudes. -- Plat`i*tu"di*nous*ness, n.

n agreeable playfulness in conversation; a jocose or humorous remark; badinage. The grave abound in pleasantries, the dull in repartees and points of wit. Addison. The keen observation and ironical pleasantry of a finished man of the world. Macaulay.

Capable of affording pleasure or satisfaction; gratifying; abounding in pleasantness or pleasantry. Planting of orchards is very . . . pleasurable. Bacon. O, sir, you are very pleasurable. B. Jonson. -- Pleas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Pleas"ur*a*bly, adv.

Having plenty; abounding; rich. The Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods. Deut. xxviii. 11.

Abounding with plots.