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To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast. He frothed his bumpers to the brim. Tennyson.

An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. "Bashful country bumpkins." W. Irving.

Self-conceited; forward; pushing. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

Conceitedness. [Colloq.]

the butterbump or bittern.

The European bittern. Johnson.

h, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.] Bog bean. See Buck bean. -- Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise), Bog blitter, Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, the bittern. [Prov.] -- Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland. -- Bog earth (Min.), a soil composed for th…

To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump. Swift.

A brimful bowl; a bumper.

as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) Onr from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen. [Written also boomkin.]

The jaw. [Obs.] Spenser. Chaw bacon, a rustic; a bumpkin; a lout. (Law) -- Chaw tooth, a grinder. (Law)

s of the skin produced by cold or fear; -- called also goose skin.goose pimples and goose bumps -- Goose grass. (Bot.)

d it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. Encyc. Brit. -- Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. -- Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. -- Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. --…

A small portion of liquor left in a glass after drinking. "Bumpers around and no heeltaps." Sheridan.

A conflict by collisions; a crowding or bumping together; interference. The jostle of South African nationalities and civilization. The Nation.

A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin. Sir P. Sidney.

A bumper in honor of a toast or health. [Obs.] Shak.

A clown; a country bumpkin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "Country swains, and silly swads." Greene. There was one busy fellow was their leader, A blunt, squat swad, but lower than yourself. B. Jonson.

A country bumpkin. [Eng.] Dickens.