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A collection of papal bulls.

A stupid fellow; a lubber. [Colloq.] Jonson.

or affections of the mind; as, the bump of "veneration;" the bump of "acquisitiveness." [Colloq.]

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

Conceitedness. [Colloq.]

A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.

To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett.

A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it.

Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.

Government officials, collectively.

In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought. [Colloq.] To burn out, to burn till the fuel is exhausted. -- To burn up, To burn down, to be entirely consumed.

nishing machine, a machine for smoothing and polishing by compression, as in making paper collars.

A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.

The treasury of a college or monastery.

An omnibus. [Colloq.]

A large indefinite quantity. [Colloq.] The worthies of antiquity bought the rarest pictures with bushels of gold, without counting the weight or the number of the pieces. Dryden.

Care; anxiety; diligence. [Obs.] Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. [Colloq.] Wycherley. -- To make (a thing) one's business, to occupy one's self with a thing as a special charge or duty. [Colloq.] -- To mean business, to be earnest. [Colloq.]

pieces, without having them overlap. See Weld. -- Full butt, headfirst with full force. [Colloq.] "The corporal . . . ran full butt at the lieutenant." Marryat.

A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. [Colloq.] Dickens.

A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students. And the major Oxford kept the buttery bar. E. Hall.