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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A protruding part; an outward curve or swelling.
  2. n. Nautical A bilge.
  3. n. A sudden, usually temporary increase in number or quantity: The baby boom created a bulge in school enrollment.
  4. n. An advantage.
  5. v. To cause to curve outward.
  6. v. To curve outward.
  7. v. To swell up.
  8. v. To stick out; protrude.
  9. v. To be filled or overfilled: pockets bulging with coins.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A rounded protuberance; a swelling; a swell; a hump.
  2. n. The swirl made by a salmon rising to the surface.
  3. To swell out; be protuberant.
  4. To bilge, as a ship.
  5. n. A rapid rise in price, of stock, grain, cotton, or the like, followed by an equally rapid fall, owing to some temporary causes. The name has reference to the curve in a diagram of prices.
  6. To cause to swell out and become protuberant.
  7. To bilge or stave in the bottom of, as a ship.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Something sticking out from a surface.
  2. v. intransitive To stick out from (a surface).
  3. v. intransitive To bilge, as a ship; to founder.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
  2. n. A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure.
  3. n. (Naut.) The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2.
  4. v. To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant.
  5. v. To bilge, as a ship; to founder.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
  2. v. bulge outward
  3. v. bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
  4. v. swell or protrude outwards
  5. v. cause to bulge or swell outwards

Etymologies

  1. From Latin bulga "leather bag". Cognates includes bilge, belly, bellows, budget, French bouge, German Balg, etc. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, pouch, from Old French bulge, bouge, from Latin bulga, bag, of Celtic origin; see bhelgh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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