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er calving. -- Milk glass, glass having a milky appearance. -- Milk knot (Med.), a hard lump forming in the breast of a nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and congestion of the mammary glands. -- Milk leg (Med.), a swollen condition of the leg, usually in puerperal women, caused by an inflammation…

A patron deity or presiding genius. Come, thou, monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus. Shak.

A clump of trees in a prairie. [Local, U.S.]

A stone or thick lump of glass, or kind of pestle, flat at the bottom, used for grinding pigments or drugs, etc., upon a slab of similar material.

A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.

Having little knots or lumps.

A lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal; as, a nugget of gold.

ts wings is over ten inches. -- Owl parrot (Zoöl.), the kakapo. -- Sea owl (Zoöl.), the lumpfish. -- Owl train, a cant name for certain railway trains whose run is in the nighttime.

The lumpfish. [Prov. Eng.]

To throw, push, drive heavily, plumply, or suddenly; as, to plunk down a dollar; also, to hit or strike.

Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc. "Seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed." Gen. xli. 19.

The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.

To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.

Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness. Those happy smilets, That played on her ripe lip. Shak.

Lime in the lump after it is burned; quicklime. [Eng.]

Roundness; plumpness. [R.] High-kirtled for the chase, and what was shown Of maiden rondure, like the rose half-blown. Lowell.

Openly; boldly; peremptorily; plumply. He affirms everything roundly. Addison.

ous; close; hard. [Obs., except in a few phrases; as, sad bread.] His hand, more sad than lump of lead. Spenser. Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad. Mortimer.

The lumpfish.

Lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]