bump2 (bump)

[ set fellow, bumpet, thick, fat.] 1. A shock from a collision, such as from the jolting of a vehicle. Those thumps and bumps which flesh is heir to. Hook, Gilbert Gurney, I. v. 2. In English boat - racing, the striking of one boat by the prow of another following her. See bump2, v. t., 2. I can still condescend to give our boat a shout when it Cambridge Sketches. makes a bump. 3. A swelling or protuberance, especially one caused by a blow. Shak ., R. and J., i. 3. A bump as big as a young cockrel's stone. I had rather she should make bumps on my head, as big as my two fingers, than I would offend her. B. Jonson, Poetaster, ii. 1 Specifically-4. The popular designation of the natural protuberances on the surface of the skull or cranium, which phrenologists a ociate with distinct qualities, affections, propensities, etc., of the mind: used ironically for the word organ employed by phrenologists: as, the bump of veneration, acquisitivene , etc.-5. The corner of the stock of a gun at the top of the heel-plate.