1. an irregularly shaped mass or piece.
2. A small cube of sugar.
3. pathology A swelling or small palpable mass.
4. A collection or totality; an aggregate.
5. A person regarded as ungainly or dull-witted.
6. informal severe punishment or treatment, as a beating or an unsparing criticism: take one's lumps.
7. informal one's just deserts; comeuppance: get one's lumps.
8. formed into lumps: lump sugar.
9. not broken or divided into parts: a lump payment.
10. to put together in a single group without discrimination.
11. to move with heavy clumsiness.
12. to make into lumps.
13. to become lumpy.
14. to move heavily.
15. lump in (one's) throat A feeling of constriction in the throat caused by emotion.
16. informal to tolerate (what must be endured): like it or lump it.

1. something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound, hill, or group.
2. A group, set, or unit.
3. A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
4. A dull or lazy person.
5. A beating or verbal abuse.
6. to treat as a single unit; to group together.

1. A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass
2. A mass or aggregation of things.
3. A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
4. to throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.
5. to take in the gross; to speak of collectively.
6. to get along with as one can, although displeased.

1. to make into a mass; combine in a body or gross sum without distinction of particulars.
2. to take in the lump, or collectively in the gross; consider or dispose of in the gross.
3. to beat severely.
4. to act as a lumper; be employed in loading or unloading ships, as a stevedore.
5. to look sullen or glum; sulk.
6. to take without choice; take “anyhow”: a word in itself of no definite signification, used in the expression “if you don't like it, you may lump it.”
7. in mining, a coarse fragment of ore, coal, phosphate rock, or any useful mineral, as contrasted with the fines, spalls, or otherwise designated smaller pieces.
8. noting the coarser grade of bituminous coal which is picked out as it comes from the mine.
9. to appear larger by aggregation; bulk: as, he lumped large in public imagination.
10. A small mass; a relatively small aggregation or conglomeration of solid matter without regular form: as, a lump of ore, clay, or dough; to melt a number of coins into one lump.
11. A protuberant part; a knob, bunch, or swelling: as, a lump raised on the head by a blow.
12. A blow.
13. A dull, stolid person.
14. in firearms
15. the nipple-seat on the barrel.
16. in a break-joint breech-loader, an iron block on the barrel which descends into a recess in the action.
17. A bloom or loupe of malleable iron.
18. the lump-fish.

1. group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
2. an awkward stupid person
3. a large piece of something without definite shape
4. an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
5. put together indiscriminately
6. a compact mass