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PLUMP, a.

1. Full; swelled with fat or flesh to the full size; fat; having a full skin; round; as a plump boy; a plump habit of body.

The famish'd crow grows plump and round.

2. Full; blunt; unreserved; unqualified; as a plump lie.

PLUMP, n. A knot; a cluster; a clump; a number of things closely united or standing together; as a plump of trees; a plump of fowls; a plump of horsemen.

[This word is not now used in this sense, but the use of it formerly, is good evidence that plump is clump, with a different prefix, and both are radically one word with lump. Plumb, L. plumbum, is the same word, a lump or mass.

PLUMP, v.t. [from the adjective.] To swell; to extend to fullness; to dilate; to fatten.

The particles of air expanding themselves, plump out the sides of the bladder.

A wedding at our house will plump me up with good cheer.

PLUMP, v.i.

1. To plunge or fall like a heavy mass or lump of dead matter; to fall suddenly or at once.

2. To enlarge to fullness; to be swelled.

PLUMP, adv. Suddenly; heavily; at once, or with a sudden heavy fall.

1913 Definition
Plump (plump)
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Plump
[Compar. Plumper (-1913 webster dictionaryr); superl. Plumpest.] [OE. plomp rude, clumsy; akin to D. plomp, G., Dan., *** Sw. plump] probably of imitative origin. Cf. Plump,
  1. Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.
    Shak.

    The god of wine did his plump clusters bring. T. Carew.

  2. A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears.
    [Obs.]

    To visit islands and the plumps of men. Chapman.

  3. To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
  4. To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
    "Dulcissa plumps into a chair." Spectator.
  5. To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
  6. To make plump] to fill (out) or support; -- often with up.

    To plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles. Fuller.

  7. To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
  8. To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
  9. Directly] suddenly; perpendicularly.
    "Fall plump." Beau. *** Fl.
  10. Done or made plump, or suddenly and without reservation; blunt; unreserved; direct; downright.

    After the plump statement that the author was at Erceldoune and spake with Thomas. Saintsbury.


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