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▪ I. bulging, vbl. n.|ˈbʌldʒɪŋ|
[f. bulge v.]
†1. The staving in of the bottom or sides of a ship. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Enfoncement, a sinking, a bulging. 1648Herrick Hesper. I. 31 Nor wrack or bulging thou hast cause to feare. 1755N. Magens Insurances II. 17 When a Ship..is in danger of bulging.
2. A becoming protuberant, swelling out.
1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty ix. 49 By their bulging too much in their curvature. 1847–9Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. IV. 246/1 The appearance of bulging presented by the distended capsule. 1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 393 Ramification takes place by the bulging out of lateral cells.
3. concr. A protuberance; a swelling.
1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 425 This bulging is named the Additamentum pedum Hippocampi. 1854Woodward Mollusca (1856) 152 Animal with..eyes on bulgings at the outer bases of the tentacles.
▪ II. ˈbulging, ppl. a.
[f. bulge v. + -ing2.]
That bulges or swells out; bending outward, projecting, protuberant, swelling; baggy.
1812Woodhouse Astron. x. 80 The bulging equatorial parts of the terrestrial spheroid. 1851Kingsley Yeast iii. 45 He was dressed in a..fustian jacket..with bulging, greasy pockets. 1859R. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. R.G.S. XXIX. 101 Irregular bulging lines of rolling hill. |