Word Meanings - BULK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The cargo of a vessel when stowed. 4. The body. Shak. My liver leaped within my bulk. Turbervile. Barrel bulk. See under Barrel. -- To break bulk , to begin to unload or more the cargo. -- In bulk, in a mass; loose; not inclosed in

Additional info about word: BULK

The cargo of a vessel when stowed. 4. The body. Shak. My liver leaped within my bulk. Turbervile. Barrel bulk. See under Barrel. -- To break bulk , to begin to unload or more the cargo. -- In bulk, in a mass; loose; not inclosed in separate packages or divided into separate parts; in such shape that any desired quantity may be taken or sold. -- Laden in bulk, Stowed in bulk, having the cargo loose in the hold or not inclosed in boxes, bales, or casks. -- Sale by bulk, a sale of goods as they are, without weight or measure. Syn. -- Size; magnitude; dimension; volume; bigness; largeness; massiveness. (more info) OSw. bolk crowd, mass, Icel. b to be bulky. Cf. Boll, n., Bile a 1. Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk. Against these forces there were prepared near one hundred ships; not so great of bulk indeed, but of a more nimble motion, and more serviceable. Bacon. 2. The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt. The bulk of the people must labor, Burke told them, "to obtain what by labor can be obtained." J. Morley.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BULK)

• Dimension
• Measurement
• size
• configuration
• delineation
• mass
• bulk
• extent
• Generality
• Mass
• body
• majority
• Gross
• Entire
• vulgar
• vicious
• impure
• coarse
• bloated
• sensual
• animal
• indelicate
• outrageous
• unseemly
• shameful
• plain
• Bulk
• principal
• trunk
• chief
• leading
• most important
• first
• Superiority
• eldership
• priority
• preponderance
• seniority

Related words: (words related to BULK)

• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• TRUNKED
  Having a trunk. Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees. Howell.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• SENIORITY
  The quality or state of being senior.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• TRUNKFUL
  As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• TRUNK PISTON
  In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with.
• SENSUALISTIC
  1. Sensual. 2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism.
• DELINEATION
  1. The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from
• POT LEAD
  Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
• KERCHIEF
  couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in
• PLEADINGS
  The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some