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Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Magnificence. Of medium height, plump, but not stout, with a rather slender waist and expansive hips, and a foot which stepped firmly and nimbly at the same time, she was as cheerful a body as one could wish to see. B. Taylor , Northern Travel, p. 72. 2. Figuratively, round; fat; large; full. IMG:content-0470.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Dry; hard. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] plump1† (plump), n . [ plump , plomp , a cluster, clump; plump1 , а . Cf. clump1 .] A knot; a cluster; a group; a clump; a number of persons, animals, or things closely united or standing together; a covey. Whan the i wil fighte, the i wille schokken hem to gidre in a plomp . Mandeville , Travels, p. 252. ere chief officers in his campe By means wherof such as were reuolted by plumpes vnto Seleucus. Golding, tr. of Justine, fol. 83. Here's a whole plump of rogues. Fletcher, Double Marriage, iii. 2. So spread upon a lake, with upward eye, A plump of fowl behold their foe on high. Dryden , Theodore and Honoria, 1. 316. plump1 (plump), v . [ plump1 , a . ] I. in trans . To grow plump; enlarge to fullne ; swell. Johnson ; Imp . Dict . II. trans . To make plump, full, or distended; extend to fullne ; dilate; fatten. The golden films, whilst they were in a liquor that plumped them up, seemed to be solid wires of gold.