bunch

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A group of things growing close together; a cluster or clump: a bunch of grapes; grass growing in bunches.
2. n. A group of like items or individuals gathered or placed together: a bunch of keys on a ring; people standing around in bunches.
3. n. Informal A group of people usually having a common interest or association: My brother and his bunch are basketball fanatics.
4. n. Informal A considerable number or amount; a lot: a bunch of trouble; a whole bunch of food.
5. n. A small lump or swelling; a bump.
6. v. To gather or form into a cluster: bunched my fingers into a fist.
7. v. To gather together into a group.
8. v. To gather (fabric) into folds.
9. v. To form a cluster or group: runners bunching up at the starting line.
10. v. To be gathered together in folds, as fabric.
11. v. To swell; protrude.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump.
2. n. A cluster, collection, or tuft of things of the same kind connected in growth or joined together mechanically: as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of feathers on a hat.
3. n. More generally, a cluster or aggregate of any kind: used specifically of ducks, in the sense of a small flock.
4. n. In mining, a small mass of ore. See bunchy, 3, and pocket.
5. n. In flax-manuf., three bundles or 180,000 yards of linen yarn.
6. n. A unit of tale for osiers, reeds, teazels, and the like, with no general or fixed sense.
7. To swell out in a protuberance; be protuberant or round.
8. To make a bunch or bunches of; bring together into a bunch or aggregate; concentrate: as, to bunch ballots for distribution; to bunch profits; to bunch the hits in a game of base-ball.
9. To beat; strike.
10. n. In mining, the expanded portion of a pipe-line; a place where the pipe does not maintain a uniform cross-section, but is expanded.
11. In sugar-beet growing, see block, transitive verb, 8.

Wiktionary

1. n. A group of a number of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump.
2. n. An informal body of friends.
3. n. A considerable amount.
4. n. An unmentioned amount; a number.
5. v. To gather into a bunch.
6. v. To gather fabric into folds.
7. v. To form a bunch.
8. v. To be gathered together in folds
9. v. To protrude or swell

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
2. n. A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together.
3. n. A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.
4. v. To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.
5. v. To form into a bunch or bunches.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. any collection in its entirety
2. v. form into a bunch
3. n. an informal body of friends
4. n. a grouping of a number of similar things
5. v. gather or cause to gather into a cluster