Definition of bulk

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Bulk (n.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed.

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Waste :: Waste (v. i.) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less..
Cubbridge-head :: Cubbridge-head (n.) A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.
Size :: Size (v. t.) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
Volume :: Volume (n.) Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas..
Gross :: Gross (a.) The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass..
Concentrate :: Concentrate (v. t.) To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense; as, to concentrate acid by evaporation; to concentrate by washing; -- opposed to dilute..
Lumber :: Lumber (n.) Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value..
Sizable :: Sizable (a.) Of considerable size or bulk.
Bulkhead :: Bulkhead (n.) A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck..
Levity :: Levity (n.) The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity..
Bouk :: Bouk (n.) Bulk; volume.
Ton :: Ton (n.) A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, etc..
Bulkhead :: Bulkhead (n.) A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front..
Expand :: Expand (v. t.) To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence..
Burly :: Burly (a.) Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky..
Overlargeness :: Overlargeness (n.) Excess of size or bulk.
Portliness :: Portliness (n.) Bulkiness; corpulence.
Syphilide :: Syphering (n.) The lapping of chamfered edges of planks to make a smooth surface, as for a bulkhead..
Vast :: Vast (superl.) Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia..
Log :: Log (n.) A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.
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