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Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.

To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment. He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. Is. xliv. 14.

Excess of size or bulk.

Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen. The king began to pare a little the privilege of clergy. Bacon.

Bulkiness; corpulence.

Bulky; corpulent. "A portly personage." Dickens.

A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting. Pouch mouth, a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.

Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder. "Prodigious might." Milton.

than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England.

ss; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much"; measure in regard to bulk or amount; determinate or comparative dimensions; measure; amount; bulk; extent; size. Hence, in specific uses:

A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.

(Naut.), a large, square port in a vessel's side for loading or unloading timber or other bulky articles; a timber or lumber port.

A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition o…

To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.

The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement.

Of considerable size or bulk. "A sizable volume." Bp. Hurd.

Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock.

Fat; thick; plump; bulky. Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice. Betterton.

mporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic. The customs of Alexandria were very great, it having been the staple of the Indian trade. Arbuthnot. For the increase of trade and the encouragement of the worthy burgesses of Woodstock, her ma…

Large; bulky; corpulent.