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To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20.

To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant. Pope.

Bounded by the sea.

To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn.

Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches. Language . . . affluent in expression. H. Reed. Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. Prior.

Of or pertaining to the algæ, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed.

An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.

Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation.

Partaking of the nature of water, or abounding with it; watery. The aqueous vapor of the air. Tyndall.

Producing clay; -- applied to such earths as abound with argil. Kirwan.

cters used in the country about the Tigris and Euphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. See Cuneiform.

Abounding with reeds; reedy.

usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc. Arsenic abounds with air blebs. Kirwan.

Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny. In the woods and braky glens. W. Browne.

us. [Obs. or Archaic as applied to material things.] Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth. Bacon. It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall. Pepys.

ant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.

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

Abounding in bubbles; bubbling. Nash.

name for a native in Ohio. [U.S.] Buckeye State, Ohio; -- so called because buckeye trees abound there.

Infested or abounding with bugs.