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growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus. Accidental ossifications or deposits of phosphates of lime in certain organs . . . are called osseous concretions. Dunglison.

A tuft or clump. [Obs.] Tusser.

Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docetæ. "Docetic Gnosticism." Plumptre.

Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.

In a lump; as a whole; all together. "Movement of the ossicles en bloc." Nature.

To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow. So now all three one senseless lump remain, Enwallowed in his own black bloody gore. Spenser.

elized, might claim the tittle though there were many evangelists who were not Apistles. Plumptre.

he purpose of filling up; superfluous. "Expletive imagery." Hallam. Expletive phrases to plump his speech. Barrow.

Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.

The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh. Their eyes stand out with fatness. Ps. lxxiii. 7.

To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.

have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form. A clump of ancient cedars feathering in evergreen beauty down to the ground. Warren. The ripple feathering from her bows. Tennyson.

The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness. Milton.

Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross. The sole of his foot is fleshy. Ray.

To aggregate into small lumps.

The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.

The material for glaze of pottery. Frit brick, a lump of calcined glass materials, brought to a pasty condition in a reverberatory furnace, preliminary to the perfect vitrification in the melting pot.

A plump young person or child. [Obs.] Smart.

Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa. [Eng.] A fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid. Mme. D'Arblay.

fuel, fuel consisting of small particles, as coal dust, sawdust, etc., consolidated into lumps or blocks.