Bŭlk, n.

n. [Dan. bulk, a bunch on the back, O. Sw. bolk, crowd, mass, Icel. bulka, to swell, W. bælg, bulk, a bulky round body, bæl, a round hollow body, rotundity.]

1. Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; size; mass; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.
2. The gross; the majority; the main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; as, the bulk of a debt.

Nor is it easy for the bulk of mankind to distinguish, in a great number of particulars, that common circumstance in which they all agree. Hume.

3. (Naut.) The whole cargo of a ship when stowed. Totten.
4. A projecting part of a shop or building; a stall.

Here, stand behind this bulk. Shak. He found a country fellow dead drunk, snorting on a bulk. Burton. 5. The body. [Obs.] My liver leaped within my bulk. Tuberville. In bulk, in a mass, or solid state; as, pork in bulk, or bulk pork, pork not cut up or prepared for packing.—Laden or stowed in bulk, having the cargo loose in the hold or not inclosed in boxes, bales, or casks.—Sale by bulk, a sale of goods as they are, without weight or measure. Bouvier.—To break bulk (Naut.), to begin to unload. Totten.