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To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump. They will carry . . . their treasures upon the bunches of camels. Isa. xxx. 6.

Having a back like a camel; humpbacked. Fuller.

Father; -- a word sometimes used by children. I was never so bethumped withwords, Since I first called my brother's father dad. Shak.

y; to take dinner. Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. Shak. To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint…

To strike; to thump; to pound. [Obs.] Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves. Piers Plowman.

The Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), having one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two humps.

A blow with a cudgel; a thump. Addison.

without the title of king. Duke's coronet. See Illust. of Coronet. -- To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner. See under Dine.

Humped; protuberant; -- said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations. Brande & C.

Hunched; hump-backed. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. -- Gib"bous*ly, adv. -- Gib"bous*ness, n.

A hump; a protuberance.

A back with a hunch or hump; also, a hunchbacked person.

Having a humped back.

Having knaps; full of protuberances or humps; knobby. [Obs.] Huloet.

ire gauze, preventing the kindling of dangerous explosive gases; -- called also, from Sir Humphry Davy the inventor, Davy lamp. -- To smell of the lamp, to bear marks of great study and labor, as a literary composition.

American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes.

A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively. [Eng.] Richardson (Dict.).

a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all ! Mrs. Humphry Ward.

s belonging to Notodonta, Nerice, and allied genera. The caterpillar of these moths has a hump, or spine, on its back.