Plump

Definition of Plump

Pronunciation: plŭmp

a.	1.	Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks. The god of wine did his plump clusters bring. - T. Carew.
	2.	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.
n.	1.	A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears. To visit islands and the plumps of men. - Chapman.
v. i.	1.	To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
	2.	To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
	3.	To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
v. t.	1.	To make plump; to fill (out) or support; - often with up. [imp. & p. p. Plumped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Plumping.] To plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles. - Fuller.
	2.	To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
	3.	To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
adv.	1.	Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

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