Bulge
(Bulge), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bulged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bulging.]
1. To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall
bulges.
2. To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
And scattered navies bulge on distant shores.
Broome.
Bulgy
(Bul"gy) a. Bulged; bulging; bending, or tending to bend, outward. [Colloq.]
Bulimia
(||Bu*lim"i*a Bu"li*my) n. [NL. bulimia, fr. Gr. boylimi`a, lit., ox-hunger; boy^s ox + limo`s hunger: cf.
F. boulimie.] (Med.) A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased
and voracious appetite.
Bulimus
(||Bu*li"mus) n. [L. bulimus hunger. See Bulimy.] (Zoöl.) A genus of land snails having an
elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous and abundant in tropical America.
Bulk
(Bulk) n. [OE. bulke, bolke, heap; cf. Dan. bulk lump, clod, OSw. bolk crowd, mass, Icel. blkast
to be bulky. Cf. Boll, n., Bile a boil, Bulge, n.]
1. Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.
Against these forces there were prepared near one hundred ships; not so great of bulk indeed, but of a
more nimble motion, and more serviceable.
Bacon.
2. The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.
The bulk of the people must labor, Burke told them, "to obtain what by labor can be obtained."
J. Morley.
3. (Naut.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed.
4. The body. [Obs.] Shak.
My liver leaped within my bulk.
Turbervile.
Barrel bulk.
See under Barrel. — To break bulk (Naut.), to begin to unload or more the cargo. —
In bulk, in a mass; loose; not inclosed in separate packages or divided into separate parts; in such shape
that any desired quantity may be taken or sold. — Laden in bulk, 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.
Syn. — Size; magnitude; dimension; volume; bigness; largeness; massiveness.
Bulk
(Bulk) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bulked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bulking.] To appear or seem to be, as to
bulk or extent; to swell.
The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment.
Leslie Stephen.
Bulk
(Bulk), n. [Icel. balkr a beam, partition. Cf. Balk, n. & v.] A projecting part of a building.
[Obs.]
Here, stand behind this bulk.
Shak.
Bulker
(Bulk"er) n. (Naut.) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix
the amount of freight or dues payable on them.