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The act of one who is profuse; a lavishing or pouring out without sting. Thy vast profusion to the factious nobles Rowe.

An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.…

An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth. And old age of elegance, affluence, and ease. Coldsmith.

Expense; profusion; outlay. [Obs.] It was a vault built for great dispense. Spenser.

To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.

being luxuriant; luxuriance. Flowers grow up in the garden in the greatest luxuriancy and profusion. Spectator.

Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony."The prodigality of his wit." Dryden.

In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden.

Waste; profusion; prodigality. [R.] Bp. Hall.

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

nd, under the Tudors, characterized by flat four-centered arches, shallow moldings, and a profusion of paneling on the walls.

An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds.