See Also: lump(1)(dictionary)
lump(2)(dictionary)
lump(4)(dictionary)
lump(dictionary)
Lump sum(finance)
lump(3)(dictionary)
Lump Sum(money)
lump sum(dictionary)
lump(medicine)
lump 2, verb(dictionary)

thesaurosis (iou) and lump(1) (iou)


thesaurosis (iou)



thesaurosis noun. . M20.
[from Greek thesauros store + -OSIS.]
Medicine. Any of various diseases caused by accumulation of foreign or abnormal substances in the tissues, esp. the lungs.

lump(1) (iou)



lump noun1. ME.
[Origin unkn. Cf. Danish lump(e) lump, Norwegian, Swedish dial. lump block, stump, log; but what may be the original sense, 'shapeless piece', is seen also in Dutch lomp, lompe rag, Dutch lomp, Low German lump coarse, rude (whence German Lumpen rag).]
A compact, shapeless, or unshapely piece or mass. ME.
J. T. Story The police..had seen Maria feeding lumps of sugar to the racehorse. P. Abrahams A woman gave each person a lump of thick porridge.
b. ellipt. A lump of sugar. L19.
a. A mass of clay taken up by a potter or sculptor for one operation, a mass of dough intended for one Baking. ME.
b. A mass of malleable iron. E16.
A heavy dull person, a lazy person; an ungainly person; a big sturdy person. ME.
L. Cody She makes me feel like a big lump.
An aggregate of units; a heap, a clump, a cluster. LME-L18.
A protuberance, a swelling, an excrescence, esp. one caused by disease or injury in an animal body. LME.
E. Nesbit There was a lump on his young brow as big as a turkey's egg. D. DeLillo Steffie was routinely examining her chest for lumps.
b. A feeling of tightness or pressure in the throat due to emotion. Chiefly in a lump in one's throat, bring a lump to a person's throat. colloq. M19.
A great quantity, a lot. slang & dial. E16.
R. D. Blackmore Colonel Harding owed him a lump of money.
The whole mass or quantity of something; the great majority. L16-E18.
A nipple on the barrel of a musket; an iron block under the barrel of certain types of breech-loading gun descending into a recess in the action. M19.
Nautical. A wave of a choppy sea. M19.
The workhouse. arch. slang. L19.
A parcel of Food given to a tramp or vagrant. US slang. E20.
In pl. Hard knocks, attacks. slang. M20.
J. H. Gray My father would..take his verbal lumps, saying nothing.
The class of people in building or Other trades who contract to do work for a lump sum, or who work as self-employed individuals for payment without deduction of tax. M20.
Phrases: by the lump, in the lump as a whole, in a General manner; without breaking down into units, in the mass; wholesale; for a lump sum. lump of clay the human body regarded as purely material, without a soul. lumps of delight: see DELIGHT noun 4.
Comb.: lump-account an account in which items are treated together without particulars or details; lump coal coal in lumps as mined; lump sugar loaf sugar broken into lumps or cut into cubes; lump sum (a) a sum covering or including a number of items; (b) a sum of money paid to cover the complete cost of something; lump work work contracted for as a single job for a lump sum.