Definition of bulk

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Bulk (n.) Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk..

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Expand :: Expand (v. t.) To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence..
Nourish :: Nourish (v. t.) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment..
Awning :: Awning (n.) That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.
Prodigious :: Prodigious (a.) Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer..
Overbulk :: Overbulk (v. t.) To oppress by bulk; to overtower.
Atrophy :: Atrophy (n.) A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.
Diminish :: Diminish (v. t.) To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.
Pare :: Pare (v. t.) Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen.
Density :: Density (n.) The ratio of mass, or quantity of matter, to bulk or volume, esp. as compared with the mass and volume of a portion of some substance used as a standard..
Immensity :: Immensity (n.) The state or quality of being immense; inlimited or immeasurable extension; infinity; vastness in extent or bulk; greatness.
Loophole :: Loophole (n.) A small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy..
Ample :: Ample (a.) Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended..
Sizable :: Sizable (a.) Being of reasonable or suitable size; as, sizable timber; sizable bulk..
Carcass :: Carcass (n.) The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing..
Foliosity :: Foliosity (n.) The ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness.
Cize :: Cize (n.) Bulk; largeness. [Obs.] See Size.
Greasy :: Greasy (superl.) Fat of body; bulky.
Portly :: Portly (a.) Bulky; corpulent.
Disproportionate :: Disproportionate (a.) Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means..
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