LUMP, noun 1. A small mass of matter of no definite shape; as a lump of earth; a lump of butter; a lump of sugar. 2. A mass of things blended or thrown together without order or distinction; as copper, iron, gold, silver, lead, tin, promiscuously in one lump 3. A cluster; as a lump of figs. 2 Kings 20:7. In the lump the whole together; in gross. They may buy my papers in the lump LUMP, verb transitive 1. To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars. The expenses ought to be lumped. 2. To take in the gross.
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