HUMP
\hˈʌmp], \hˈʌmp], \h_ˈʌ_m_p]\
Definitions of HUMP
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.
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To form into a hump; to make hump-shaped; to hunch; - often with up.
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To bend or gather together for strenuous effort, as in running; to do or effect by such effort; to exert; - usually reflexively or with it; as, you must hump yourself.
By Oddity Software
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A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.
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To form into a hump; to make hump-shaped; to hunch; - often with up.
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To bend or gather together for strenuous effort, as in running; to do or effect by such effort; to exert; - usually reflexively or with it; as, you must hump yourself.
By Noah Webster.
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A protuberance or bulging, especially that on the back of a camel, or that formed by a crooked back in man.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A prominence, formed by a deviation of the bones of the trunk. Commonly, it is formed by the spine or sternum, and is seated at the posterior or anterior part of the trunk. It may, also, be produced by deviation of the ribs or pelvis. The spine may be curved in three principal directions. 1. Backwards, the most common case, Cyphosis, Gibbositas. 2. Forwards,Lordosis, Recurvatio; and 3. Laterally, Scoliosis, Obstipatio. Most curvatures occur at a very early age, and are caused by scrofula, rickets, &c.; and, not unfrequently, they are accompanied by caries of the vertebrae. See Vertebral disease. One who is affected with a hump, or is humpbacked, Humpty, Huckshouldered, Shrump-shouldered, (Sc.) Hulgiebacked, Trudge-backed, (Prov.) Croopbacked, is called, by the French, bossu.
By Robley Dunglison
