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Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.

haracterized by. -- To abound with, to be filled with; to possess in great numbers. Men abounding in natural courage. Macaulay. A faithful man shall abound with blessings. Prov. xxviii. 20. It abounds with cabinets of curiosities. Addison.

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.

ters 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.

striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. Prior.

A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.

That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit. But still his native country lies Beyond the boundaries of the skies. N. Cotton. That bright and tranquil stream, the boundary of Louth and Meath. Macaulay. Sensation and refle…

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

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

Abounding in bubbles; bubbling. Nash.

Infested or abounding with bugs.

Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

An abuttal; a boundary. Without buttings or boundings on any side. Bp. Beveridge.

Of or pertaining to cane or canes; abounding with canes. Milton.