[luhm-per] 
| 1. | a day laborer employed to handle cargo, as fish or timber. |
| 2. | Biology Informal. a taxonomist who believes that classifications should emphasize similarities among organisms and therefore favors large, inclusive taxa (opposed to splitter ). |
[luhmp] | 1. | a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal. |
| 2. | a protuberance or swelling: a blow that raised a lump on his head. |
| 3. | an aggregation, collection, or mass; clump: All the articles were piled in a great lump. |
| 4. | Also called lump of sugar. a small block of granulated sugar, designed for sweetening hot coffee, tea, etc.: How many lumps do you take in your coffee? |
| 5. | majority; plurality; multitude: The great lump of voters are still undecided. |
| 6. | lumps, Informal. harsh criticism, punishment, or defeat: The new theory came in for some lumps when other scholars heard of it. |
| 7. | Informal. a heavy, clumsy, and usually stupid person. |
| 8. | in the form of a lump or lumps: lump sugar. |
| 9. | made up of a number of items taken together; not separated or considered separately: The debts were paid in one lump sum. |
| 10. | to unite into one aggregation, collection, or mass (often fol. by together): We lumped the reds and blues together. |
| 11. | to deal with, handle, consider, etc., in the lump or mass: to lump unrelated matters indiscriminately. |
| 12. | to make into a lump or lumps: to lump dough before shaping it into loaves. |
| 13. | to raise into or cover with lumps: a plow lumping the moist earth. |
| 14. | to form or raise a lump or lumps: Stir the gravy so that it doesn't lump. |
| 15. | to move heavily and awkwardly: The big oaf lumped along beside me. |
| 16. | get or take one's lumps, to receive or endure hardship, punishment, criticism, etc.: Without its star pitcher, the baseball team will get its lumps today. |
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