Lump

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Lump - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

LUMP, n.

1. A small mass of matter of no definite shape; as a lump of earth; a lump of butter; a lump of sugar.

2. A mass of things blended or thrown together without order or distinction; as copper, iron, gold, silver, lead, tin, promiscuously in one lump.

3. A cluster; as a lump of figs. 2 Ki 20.

In the lump, the whole together; in gross.

They may buy my papers in the lump.

LUMP, v.t.

1. To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.

The expenses ought to be lumped.

2. To take in the gross.

Source of the article

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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