Clump \Clump\, v. t. To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group. --Blackmore.
Clump \Clump\, v. i. To tread clumsily; to clamp. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
Clump \Clump\ (kl[u^]mp), n. [Cf. D. klomp lump, G. klump, klumpen, Dan. klump, Sw. klump; perh. akin to L. globus, E. globe. Cf. {Club}.] 1. An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.
2. A cluster; a group; a thicket.
A clump of shrubby trees. --Hawthorne.
3. The compressed clay of coal strata. --Brande & C.
It's just a ragged clump of stunted spruce, but the Adak National Forest is nothing short of inspirational to foresters who dream of covering the desolate Aleutian Islands with trees.
"Grass should be cut in dry weather and in the early evening. If it is too wet from rain, dew or fog, the grass has a tendency to clump and not cut evenly.
Or what looks like a clump of wet sand in the form of a tiny smoldering volcano.
Developer Tony Clegg, who owns most of the 7-acre site, plans to tear down a clump of undistinguished 1960s office blocks and put up more offices and shops.
It was once a thriving community but now is just a clump of houses overshadowed by its neighbor to the west, Paris Crossing, or, as it is known locally, New Paris.
Among the clump of men looking at the depressing numbers being posted outside the exchange on Tuesday was Leopoldo Hernandez, a salesman who first bought stock in July.
Always use the outer bits of the clump as they are younger and more vigorous. These daisies can be as tough as telephone directories to would-be rippers, though.
Toward midnight, a festive clump of young men and one pretty young girl are partying noisily near the LIRR police office.
Scientists are not sure whether the attack prevents the blastocyst, a clump of cells that grows from a fertilized egg, from implanting itself in the uterus wall, or whether it prevents further development soon after implantation, Bialy said.
In the jaws of each is a clump of rice to propitiate the spirits, the "phis", who live on in the Laotian animist mind despite hundreds of years of Buddhism.
His body was found in a clump of bushes about two miles from the town of Poptun, located 240 miles northeast of Guatemala City in the province of Peten.
Why pamper a clump of sequoias?
The Airbus-320 grazed a clump of trees on its final approach to Bangalore airport and caught fire when it hit the ground, about 50 yards from the runway, officials said.
Down a slope in a clump of woods behind the tents is the clear spring that is the wellspring of the Shiloh settlement.