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Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett.

of Actinomyces bovis. It causes local suppurating tumors, esp. about the jaw. Called also lumpy jaw or big jaw. -- Ac`ti*no*my*cot"ic (#), a.

Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister. Wright.

block of shares (Stock Exchange), a large number of shares in a stock company, sold in a lump. Bartlett. -- Block printing. (a) A mode of printing (common in China and Japan) from engraved boards by means of a sheet of paper laid on the linked surface and rubbed with a brush. S. W. Williams. (b) A method of printing…

A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.] Bog bean. See Buck bean. -- Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise), Bog blitter, Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, the bittern. [Prov.] -- Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland. -- B…

Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray.

Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass.

Without bread; destitude of food. Plump peers and breadless bards alike are dull. P. Whitehead.

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

A knot or lump in thread or cloth.

Stout or plump; large. [Obs.] Fenton.

Having a plump, short face.

Like a chub; plump, short, and thick. "Chubby faces." I. Taylor.

To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump. The policeman with clamping feet. Thackeray.

A soft or sloppy lump or mass; as, to throw a clatch of mud.

A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. "Clods of a slimy substance." Carew. "Clods of iron and brass." Milton. "Clods of blood." E. Fairfax. The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. Bacon.

To concrete into lumps; to clot. [Obs.] "Clottered blood." Chapman.

A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.

See Lumpfish. [Scot.]

See Lumpfish. [Scot.]