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In the lump, In a lump, the whole together; in gross.

They may buy them in the lump.

Addison.

-- Lump coal, coal in large lumps; -- the largest size brought from the mine. -- Lump sum, a gross sum without a specification of items; as, to award a lump sum in satisfaction of all claims and damages.

Lump, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lumped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lumping.] 1. To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.

The expenses ought to be lumped together.

Ayliffe.

2. To take in the gross; to speak of collectively.

Not forgetting all others, . . . whom for brevity, but out of no resentment to you, I lump all together.

Sterne.

3. To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he does n't like it, he can lump it.

Lump"er (?), n. [Cf. Lamper eel.] (Zoöl.) The European eelpout; -- called also lumpen.

Lump"er, n. 1. One who lumps.

2. A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.

Lump"fish` (?), n. [From Lump, on account of its bulkiness: cf. G. & D. lump, F. lompe.] (Zoöl.) A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl.

Lump"ing, a. Bulky; heavy. Arbuthnot.

Lump"ish, a. Like a lump; inert; gross; heavy; dull; spiritless. " Lumpish, heavy, melancholy." Shak.

-- Lump"ish*ly, adv. -- Lump"ish*ness, n.

Lump"suck`er (?), n. (Zoöl.) The lumpfish.

Lump"y (?), a. [Compar. Lumpier (?); superl. Lumpiest.] Full of lumps, or small compact masses.

||Lu"na (?), n. [L.; akin to lucere to shine. See Light, n., and cf. ||Lune.] 1. The moon. || 2. (Alchemy) Silver.

Luna cornea (Old Chem.), horn silver, or fused silver chloride, a tough, brown, translucent mass; -- so called from its resemblance to horn. -- Luna moth (Zoöl.), a very large and beautiful American moth (Actias luna). Its wings are delicate light green, with a stripe of purple along the front edge of the anterior wings, the other margins being edged with pale yellow. Each wing has a lunate spot surrounded by rings of light yellow, blue, and black. The caterpillar commonly feeds on the hickory, sassafras, and maple.

Lu"na*cy (?), n.; pl. Lunacies (#). [See Lunatic.] 1. Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation. Brande. Burrill.

Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange lunacy.

Shak.

2. A morbid suspension of good sense or judgment, as through fanaticism. Dr. H. More.

Syn. -- Derangement; craziness; mania. See Insanity.

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