Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bump"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bump \Bump\, v. i. [See {Boom} to roar.]
To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to
boom.
As a bittern bumps within a reed. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bump \Bump\, n.
The noise made by the bittern.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bump \Bump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bumped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Bumping}.] [Cf. W. pwmp round mass, pwmpiaw to thump, bang,
and E. bum, v. i., boom to roar.]
To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to
thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bump \Bump\, v. i.
To come in violent contact with something; to thump.
``Bumping and jumping.'' --Southey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bump \Bump\, n. [From {Bump} to strike, to thump.]
1. A thump; a heavy blow.
2. A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a
protuberance.
It had upon its brow A bump as big as a young
cockerel's stone. --Shak.
3. (Phren.) One of the protuberances on the cranium which are
associated with distinct faculties or affections of the
mind; as, the bump of ``veneration;'' the bump of
``acquisitiveness.'' [Colloq.]
4. The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with
the prow of the boat following. [Eng.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bump
n 1: a lump on the body caused by a blow
2: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
a form [syn: {bulge}, {hump}, {gibbosity}, {gibbousness},
{jut}, {prominence}, {protuberance}, {protrusion}, {extrusion},
{excrescence}]
3: an impact (as from a collision); "the bump threw him off the
bicycle" [syn: {blow}]
v 1: knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into
the tree" [syn: {knock}]
2: come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea
in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not
very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book
in the bookstore the other day" [syn: {find}, {happen}, {chance},
{encounter}]
3: dance erotically, as in "bump and grind": dance with the
pelvis thrust forward
4: assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted
because she always speaks up" [syn: {demote}, {relegate},
{break}, {kick downstairs}] [ant: {promote}]
5: remove or force from a position of dwelling previously
occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into
her office space" [syn: {dislodge}, {displace}]
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