Word Meanings - TWIGSOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of, or abounding in, twigs; twiggy. " Twigsome trees." Dickens.

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• ABOUND
  1. 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. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed
• TWIGGY
  Of or pertaining to a twig or twigs; like a twig or twigs; full of twigs; abounding with shoots. " Twiggy trees." Evelyn.
• DICKENS
  The devil. I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak.
• TWIGSOME
  Full of, or abounding in, twigs; twiggy. " Twigsome trees." Dickens.
• OVERABOUND
  To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant. Pope.
• SUPERABOUND
  To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn.
• CROSSTREES
  Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."
• SEABOUND
  Bounded by the sea.