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with fullness or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality. A green, shady bank, profuse of flowers. Milton.

In a profuse manner.

Extravagance; profusion. Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness. Atterbury.

In a bibulous manner; with profuse imbibition or absorption. De Quincey.

One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.

Kind; bountiful; benign. Which . . . Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Milton.

A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, often succeeded by an eruption of small pimples.

A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

lute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness. To reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance. P. Henry.

Poured out freely; profuse. [Obs.] So should our joy be very effuse. Barrow.

Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man. "Extravagant expense." Bancroft.

In an extravagant manner; wildly; excessively; profusely.

A plant which flowers or blossoms. Many hybrids are profuse and persistent flowerers. Darwin.

Liberal; generous; profuse. [Obs.] Frank of civilities that cost them nothing. L'Estrange.

A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds.

of paradise, which, not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Milton.

Full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse. I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education. Felton.

Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.

Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.

Bestowed in a large way; hence, more than sufficient; abundant; bountiful; ample; profuse; as, a liberal gift; a liberal discharge of matter or of water. His wealth doth warrant a liberal dower. Shak.