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n 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.]

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.]

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.

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

Father; -- a word sometimes used by children. I was never so bethumped withwords, Since I first called my brother's father dad. Shak.

To strike; to thump; to pound. [Obs.] Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves. Piers Plowman.

A blow with a cudgel; a thump. Addison.

A blow or thump. Halliwell. -- a.

To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump. "A distant thwacking sound." W. Irving.

A sharp blow; a thump. [Prov. Eng. or Colloq. U. S.]