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| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| bulge (bʌldʒ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a swelling or an outward curve |
| 2. | a sudden increase in number or volume, esp of population |
| 3. | (Brit) another name for baby boom |
| 4. | (Brit) the projecting part of an army's front line; salient |
| —vb | |
| 5. | to swell outwards |
| [C13: from Old French bouge, from Latin bulga bag, probably of Gaulish origin] | |
| 'bulging | |
| —adj | |
| 'bulgingly | |
| —adv | |
| 'bulgy | |
| —adj | |
| 'bulginess | |
| —n | |