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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

The gross amount; the mass; the lump. [Scot.]

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A boggy place. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

2. The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place. [Scot.]

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To lump; to throw into a mess. These different groups . . . are exclusively slumped together under that sense. Sir W. Hamilton.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person. The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump. Barrow.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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