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A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.

Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.

A crooked back; a humped back. Tatler.

Having a humped back.

Alaska, and also on the Asiatic side. In the breeding season the male has a large dorsal hump and distorted jaws.

Having a hump, as the back.

An exclamation denoting surprise, or contempt, doubt, etc.

Without a hump. Darwin.

Full of humps or bunches; covered with protuberances; humped.

To beat or thump soundly. Shak.

A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horus, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari. [U. S.]

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump. [U. S.]

A short, thick, heavy piece of wood. Morton. Chump end, the thick end; as, the chump end of a joint of meat. Dickens.

fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like. The distant forge's swinging thump profound. Wordsworth. With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down, one by one. Coleridge.

One who, or that which, thumps.

Heavy; large. [Colloq.]

ck; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad- backed; hump- backed.

A native of Bactria. Bactrian camel, the two-humped camel.

To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.

To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. Another bounces as hard as he can knock. Swift. Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. Dryden.