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A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.

A driver or a brassy with a convex face.

To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge. The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. Dryden.

To bulge.

A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal. Knight.

Bulged; bulging; bending, or tending to bend, outward. [Colloq.]

old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks. [Eng.] Halliwell. Bulge hoop, Chine hoop, Quarter hoop, the hoop nearest the middle of a cask, that nearest the end, and the intermediate hoop between these two, respectively. -- Flat hoop, a wooden hoop dressed flat on both sides. -- Half-round…

regions roamed over by the North American Indians in search of game. -- Hunting horn, a bulge; a horn used in the chase. See Horn, and Bulge. -- Hunting leopard (Zoöl.), the cheetah. -- Hunting lodge, a temporary residence for the purpose of hunting. -- Hunting seat, a hunting lodge. Gray. -- Hunting shirt, a coa…

To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.

Mech.), a bolt or short rod, connecting opposite plates, so as to prevent them from being bulged out when acted upon by a pressure which tends to force them apart, as in the leg of a steam boiler. -- Stay busk, a stiff piece of wood, steel, or whalebone, for the front support of a woman's stays. Cf. Busk. -- Stay rod…

To swell; to bulge out. [R.] The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. Dryden.

To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.