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A lump; a clod.

A mouthful; a lump; a small piece. Spenser. [He] had broken the stocks to small gobbets. Wyclif.

diggings, where it is extracted by washing. Cf. Gold diggings (above). -- Gold nugget, a lump of gold as found in gold mining or digging; - - called also a pepito. -- Gold paint. See Gold shell. -- Gold or Golden, pheasant. (Zoöl.) See under Pheasant. -- Gold plate, a general name for vessels, dishes, cups, spoons,…

raonidæ, and subfamily Tetraoninæ, inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. They have plump bodies, strong, well-feathered legs, and usually mottled plumage. The group includes the ptarmigans (Lagopus), having feathered feet.

A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread.

A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread. [Colloq.]

A resinous product of the kauri, found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown. It is used for making varnish, and as a substitute for amber.

A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher. [Obs.] Shak.

A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.

A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.

Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore.

A lump or loop formed in a thread, cord, rope. etc., as at the end, by tying or interweaving it upon itself.

Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean. Meager and lank with fasting grown. Swift. Who would not choose . . . to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain Barrow.

Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.

Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.

e light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 1 Cor. v. 6.

Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake. Bacon. Loaf sugar, refined sugar that has been formed into a conical loaf in a mold.

Lumpish. [Obs.] Spenser.

A lump of food. [Prov. Eng.]

A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.