Lump

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  • noun. An irregularly shaped mass or piece.
  • noun. A small cube of sugar.
  • noun. A swelling or small palpable mass.
  • noun. A collection or totality; an aggregate.
  • noun. A person regarded as ungainly or dull-witted.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Severe punishment or treatment, as a beating or an unsparing criticism.
  • noun. One's just deserts; comeuppance.
  • adjective. Formed into lumps.
  • adjective. Not broken or divided into parts.
  • intransitive verb. To put together in a single group without discrimination.
  • intransitive verb. To move with heavy clumsiness.
  • intransitive verb. To make into lumps.
  • intransitive verb. To become lumpy.
  • intransitive verb. To move heavily.
  • idiom. (lump in (one's) throat) A feeling of constriction in the throat caused by emotion.
  • transitive verb. To tolerate (what must be endured).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make into a mass; combine in a body or gross sum without distinction of particulars.
  • To take in the lump, or collectively in the gross; consider or dispose of in the gross.
  • To beat severely.
  • To act as a lumper; be employed in loading or unloading ships, as a stevedore.
  • noun. The lump-fish.
  • To look sullen or glum; sulk.
  • noun. A small mass; a relatively small aggregation or conglomeration of solid matter without regular form: as, a lump of ore, clay, or dough; to melt a number of coins into one lump.
  • noun. A protuberant part; a knob, bunch, or swelling: as, a lump raised on the head by a blow.
  • noun. A blow.
  • noun. A dull, stolid person.
  • noun. In firearms
  • noun. The nipple-seat on the barrel.
  • noun. In a break-joint breech-loader, an iron block on the barrel which descends into a recess in the action.
  • noun. A bloom or loupe of malleable iron.
  • To take without choice; take “anyhow”: a word in itself of no definite signification, used in the expression “if you don't like it, you may lump it.”
  • noun. In mining, a coarse fragment of ore, coal, phosphate rock, or any useful mineral, as contrasted with the fines, spalls, or otherwise designated smaller pieces.
  • Noting the coarser grade of bituminous coal which is picked out as it comes from the mine.
  • To appear larger by aggregation; bulk: as, he lumped large in public imagination.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.
  • intransitive verb. To take in the gross; to speak of collectively.
  • intransitive verb. To get along with as one can, although displeased.
  • noun. A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass
  • noun. A mass or aggregation of things.
  • noun. A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. the whole together; in gross.
  • noun. coal in large lumps; -- the largest size brought from the mine.
  • noun. a single sum paid once in satisfaction of a claim, as contrasted with the alternate choice of several payments over a period of time; -- sometimes allowed, e.g., as an alternative to periodical pension payments for a lifetime.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound, hill, or group.
  • noun. A group, set, or unit.
  • noun. A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
  • noun. A dull or lazy person.
  • noun. A beating or verbal abuse.
  • Word Usage
    "Should that fail, I have no doubt that it will remain a testament to the culinary incompetence of one man, a man whose name will be lost to history many years after the apocalypse when the mysterious lump is unearthed by puzzled scientists."
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