Bulimus (buʻlimus)

[NL. (Scopoli, 1786), an error (as if IMG:content-2712.png:[graphic][merged small][merged small] bulk kast, be bulky), orig. a heap, in modern Icel. bunk i, a heap (see bunk and bunch1 ), = OSw. bolk, a heap, Sw. dial. bulk, a knob, bunch, = ODan. Dan. bulk, a bump, knob; prob. ult. from the root of belly, bellows, bag1, etc., and thus remotely connected with bulge, q. v. Cf. bunk, bunch1. In ref. to the body, first in early mod. E. bulke, the breast, thorax, = MD. bulcke, 'thorax'; either the same word as bulk, a heap, etc., with which it is a ociated, or the same (with I inserted by confusion with bulk, a heap) as ME. bouk, buk, buc, the belly, body: see bouk1, and cf. bucks. The sense of 'breast or chest' runs easily into that of 'the whole body,' and this into the sense of 'the whole dimensions, the gro .'] 11. A heap. Bolke or hepe, cumulus, acervus. Prompt . Parv ., p. 43. 2. Magnitude of material substance; whole dimensions in length, breadth, and thickne ; size of a material thing: as, an ox or a ship of great bulk. A sturdy mountaineer of six feet two and corresponding bulk. Hawthorne, Old Manse, II. 3. The gro ; the greater part; the main ma 714 Skinner. [Prov. Eng.] -2. A butcher's stall. [Prov. Eng.] -3. One who sleeps under bulks or benches; a night-walker. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.]-4t. A common strumpet or jilt. E. Phillips, 1706. bulkhead (bulk'hed), n. [ of water or fire from one part to another in case of acc i dent; also, a screen, as for protection in a fight. We had only to wring out our wet clothes [and] hang them up to chafe against the bulkheads. R. H. Dana , Jr. , Before the Mast, p. 33. (6) In civil eng in ., a partition built in a tunnel, conduit, or other subterranean pa age, intended to prevent the pa age of air, water, or mud. 2. A water-face of a wharf, pier, or sea-wall. -3. A horizontal or inclined door giving acce from the outside of a house to the cellar. [New Eng.] - Bulkhead door, a water-tight door in a bulkhead. - Bulkhead line, a surveyors' line showing how far the bulkheads of piers may project into a stream or harbor.- Collision bulkhead, a strong bulkhead built acro a ship, near the bows, and designed to prevent it from filling with water if the bows are stove in. - Screen bulkhead ( naut. ), a screen of canvas or other cloth, taking the of a bull nearly empty, to prevent it from leaking. To bull the market, to operate for a rise in prices, as is done by bulll (bul), a. [ brokers who are long in any particular stock.