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." Bancroft. The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe. Pope.

may be seen from one point, or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as, a cube has six faces.

A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision.

Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.

marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions. Farce is that in poetry which "grotesque" is in a picture: the persons and action of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false. Dryden.

Abounding with fat; as:

arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings.

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

coal. -- Feed head. (a) A cistern for feeding water by gravity to a steam boiler. (b) (Founding) An excess of metal above a mold, which serves to render the casting more compact by its pressure; -- also called a riser, deadhead, or simply feed or head Knight. -- Feed heater. (a) (Steam Engine) A vessel in which the…

Abounding in fens; fenny.

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

Abounding in ferns.

Ambounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.

To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.

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.

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.