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Copiously

Copiously \Co"pi*ous*ly\, adv. In a copious manner.

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copiously

adv. In a copious manner.

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copiously

adv. in an abundant manner; "they were abundantly supplied with food"; "he thanked her profusely" [syn: abundantly, profusely, extravagantly]

Usage examples of "copiously".

If, however, meat had been placed on the glands of these same tentacles before they had begun to secrete copiously and to absorb, they undoubtedly would have affected the exterior rows.

The glands secrete copiously, judging from the quantity of dried secretion adhering to them.

Johnson had been copiously illustrating the guilt of treason, and avowing his intention to punish traitors with the severest penalty known to the law, Mr.

When the signal came, Bibbs went to the office, where he divested himself of his overalls--his single divergence from the routine of his fellow-workmen--and after that he used soap and water copiously.

So was Bures, and now Currald, apparently unconscious, vomited copiously, gagging on it.

The urine from the dassie colonies poured down the cliff face so copiously that as it dried it covered the rock with a thick coating that shone in the sunlight like toffee but smelt less sweet.

Myra Deyre was there in heavy crape, weeping copiously and unrestrainedly.

These are extremely various in character and form, being globose, cylindrical, columnar or flattened into leafy expansions or thick joint-like divisions, the surface being either ribbed like a melon, or developed into nipple-like protuberances, or variously angular, but in the greater number of the species furnished copiously with tufts of horny spines, some of which are exceedingly keen and powerful.

Anvil peed copiously in the dust before he loped off in the same general direction.

And then Holger the spirit began to poetize, and kept it up, copiously, circumstantially, without pausing for thought, for dear knows how long.

Knobber made a great play of retching deep in his throat, then gobbed copiously onto the tabletop.

Whatever Soyer or Brillat Savarin might say, it is a pleasant dish, though too rich to be partaken of copiously, and according to every hygienic principle, very apt to be difficult of digestion.

When we rode out an hour later, the Sri wagons and my guard of four bandits, Darg Sih wept copiously, and swore he would offer prayers to his gods on my behalf.

The bookshop itself, with its copiously furnished shelves on the ground floor and its cramped lodgings one twist of a turnpike stair above those, had resided on London Bridgeand in a corner of Nonsuch House, the most handsome of its buildingsfor much longer: almost forty years.

Orkborne, who, though copiously stored with the works of the ancients, had a sluggish understanding, and no imagination, was entirely overset by this intrusion.