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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Bump

Bŭmp, n.

noun

n. [From bump, to strike, thump; it signifies a swelling or tumor, as the effect of a stroke or fall. Cf. W. pump, a round mass, pumpiau, to form a round mass, to thump, to bang.]

  1. A thump; a heavy blow.
  2. A swelling or protuberance.

It had upon its brow A bump as big as a young cockervil's stone. Shak. 3. One of the protuberances on the cranium which are associated by phrenologists with distinct faculties or affections of the mind; as, the bump of “veneration;” the bump of “acquisitiveness.” [Colloq.]

Būmp, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. BUMPED (bŭmt); p. pr. & vb. n. BUMPING.] [An onomatopoeia. Cf. bum, v. i., and L. Ger. bumsen, bŭmsen, to strike or fall on with a hollow noise.] To strike, as with or against any thing large or solid; as, to bump the head against a wall; to thump.

Bŭmp, v. i.

verbintransitive

[See BOOM, v. i., 3.] To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern. As a bittern bumps within a reed. Dryden.