What is "copious"

Usage examples of "copious".

When this happens, water is not properly reabsorbed in the kidney tubules and urination becomes abnormally copious.

The juice of the root is very acrid when sniffed up the nostrils, and causes a copious flow of water therefrom, thus giving marked relief for obstinate congestive headache of a dull, passive sort.

Inside the Snake Den all was amorphous liquid mud, owing to the copious seepage.

He could see Baldric on his feet, no doubt making copious mental notes of the scene for future reference.

The bather is supplied by the attendant every few minutes with copious draughts of cool water.

This morning, Bevel had awakened her with a contrite tongue-lashing, driving her to a glittering peak before leveB had plumbed the depths of her throat, leaving a warm, thick puddle of his copious satisfaction in her belly.

In just a couple of days Grady had made copious notes on Bowden and the Amazon jungle, and in doing so had made one promise to herself: when Sam went to the Amazon to find Michael Bowden, she would use her best moves to ensure she boarded the plane with himDevan Gaudet notwithstanding.

In France continuous inhalations of Peppermint oil combined with creasote and glycerine, have become used most successfully, even when cavities exist in the lungs, with copious bacillary expectoration.

Even Figgins was taken up by two whores, who whirled him across the room and planted copious kisses upon his broken face.

So he got rid of those ministers identified with the muscular absolutism of his grandfather and replaced them with reformers who would somehow conjure up changes that might be both politically liberal and fiscally copious.

Refreshed by the copious draughts of water and the fodder they had eaten they paced out strongly.

Banghurst was large and copious in speech, and such interstices as he left were filled in by Hickle with complimentary remarks to Filmer.

Through it all, Mallet spoke in sharp, quick phrases while Ensign Hott took copious notes on his data padd.

Then followed, in successive tides, from England, the copious hymnody of the Methodist revival, both Calvinist and Wesleyan, of the Evangelical revival, and now at last of the Oxford revival, with its affluence of translations from the ancient hymnists, as well as of original hymns.

It is difficult to believe nowadays that the writers of these publications, at once tediously copious and incredibly jejune, were living at the same time as the lively multitude of workers in the experimental sciences which were daily adding to and reshaping knowledge to achieve fresh practical triumphs.