LUMP, n.
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 .
In the lump, the whole together in gross.
They may buy my papers in the lump.
LUMP,
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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