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To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell. The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment. Leslie Stephen.

or the English, collectively; also, an Englishman. "Good-looking young John Bull." W. D.Howells. -- To take the bull by the horns, to grapple with a difficulty instead of avoiding it.

A humming noise. Halliwell.

A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance. It had upon its brow A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone. Shak.

Self-conceited; forward; pushing. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round. Bunching out into a large round knob at one end. Woodward.

Swelling out in bunches. An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled. Phaer.

An embankment against inundation. [India] S. Wells Williams.

To swell out; as, the sail bunts.

er or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish.

a burden (something heavy or objectionable). [R.] It is absurd to burden this act on Cromwell. Coleridge.

Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not. Wharton. Burrill.

To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large. A slender poet must have time to grow, And spread and burnish as his brothers do. Dryden. My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell. Herbert.

coming some distance up the leg. The hunted red deer's undressed hide Their hairy buskins well supplied. Sir W. Scott.

inate; to be bounded; to abut. [Written also but.] And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground. Drayton.

A dwelling. Gibson.

Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse.

To carry, as a burden. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Reckoning; computation. [Obs.] Howell.