It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Exuberance; plenteousness; plenty; copiousness; overflow; riches; affluence; wealth. -- Abundance, Plenty, Exuberance. These words rise upon each other in expressing the idea of fullness. Plenty denotes a sufficiency to supply every want; as, plenty of food, plenty of money, etc. Abundance express more, and gives the idea of superfluity or excess; as, abundance of riches, an abundance of wit and humor; often, however, it only denotes plenty in a high degree. Exuberance rises still higher, and implies a bursting forth on every side, producing great superfluity or redundance; as, an exuberance of mirth, an exuberance of animal spirits, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abundant number (Math.), a number, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the aliquot parts of 12, make the number 16. This is opposed to a deficient number, as 14, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2, 7, the sum of which is 10; and to a perfect number, which is equal to the sum of its aliquot parts, as 6, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Ample; plentiful; copious; plenteous; exuberant; overflowing; rich; teeming; profuse; bountiful; liberal. See Ample. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a type of coiffure in which the hair is gathered into a coil or knot at the top of the head. [ PJC ]

3. pl. the buttocks. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

Bunching out into a large round knob at one end. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

They will carry . . . their treasures upon the bunches of camels. Isa. xxx. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mining) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein. Page. [ 1913 Webster ]

An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled. Phaer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mining) Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine. Page. [ 1913 Webster ]

All that flourish about right of search was bunkum -- all that brag about hanging your Canada sheriff was bunkum . . . slavery speeches are all bunkum. Haliburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To speak for Buncombe, to speak for mere show, or popularly. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “The phrase originated near the close of the debate on the famous ‘Missouri Question, ' in the 16th Congress. It was then used by Felix Walker -- a naïve old mountaineer, who resided at Waynesville, in Haywood, the most western country of North Carolina, near the border of the adjacent county of Buncombe, which formed part of his district. The old man rose to speak, while the house was impatiently calling for the ‘Question, ' and several members gathered round him, begging him to desist. He persevered, however, for a while, declaring that the people of his district expected it, and that he was bound to ‘make a speech for Buncombe.'” W. Darlington. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Bundesrath of the German empire is presided over by a chancellor, and is composed of sixty-two members, who represent the different states of the empire, being appointed for each session by their respective governments. [ 1913 Webster ]

By this united congress, the highest tribunal of Switzerland, -- the Bundesrath -- is chosen, and the head of this is a president. J. P. Peters (Trans. Müller's Pol. Hist.). [ 1913 Webster ]

The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bundle pillar (Arch.), a column or pier, with others of small dimensions attached to it. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To send off abruptly or without ceremony. [ 1913 Webster ]

They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach. T. Hook. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. to sell together as a single item at one inclusive price; -- usually done for related products which work or are used together. [ PJC ]

To bundle off, to send off in a hurry, or without ceremony; as, the working mothers bundle their children off to school and then try to get themselves to work on time. --
To bundle one's self up, to wrap one's self up warmly or cumbrously. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping. Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bundle up, to dress warmly, snugly, or cumbrously. [ PJC ]

2. the act of binding something into a bundle. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. the act of shoving hastily; as, she complained about bundling the children off to school. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

He has more bundobust than most men. Kipling. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A sharper or pickpocket. [ Obs. & Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

You filthy bung, away. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bung up, to use up, as by bruising or over exertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He had bunged up his mouth that he should not have spoken these three years. Shelton (Trans. Don Quixote). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. having many bungalows. the bungaloid suburbs [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. same as bungee cord. [ PJC ]

I always had an idea that it would be bungled. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those errors and bungles which are committed. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

They make but bungling work. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]