[f. ABOUND v.1 + -ING2.]
1. Overflowing; flowing in a full stream.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., III. 64. We must consider the quantity of the abounding bloud.
1816. Byron, Childe Harold, III. 50. But Thou, exulting and abounding river.
1826. Disraeli, Viv. Grey, IV. vi. 162. The beautiful and abounding Rhine.
2. Plentiful; abundant.
1697. Snake in the Grass (ed. 2), 80. The surest Method … for a Young Man to step into an abounding Trade.
1866. Standard, 15 Sept., 4/5. The abounding cases of hardship which continually occur under certain obnoxious statutes.
† 3. Affluent.
1631. Donne, Biathanatos (1644), 91. For every labourer is miserable and beastlike in respect of the idle abounding men.
