Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. bulke, bolke, heap; cf. Dan. bulk, lump, clod, OSw. bolk, crowd, mass, Icel. blkast, to be bulky. Cf. Boll (n.) Bile a boil, Bulge (n.)
In literature:
These three kinds gave us the bulk of the crop.
"Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916" by Various
Kars bulked large in the light of the lamp.
"The Triumph of John Kars" by Ridgwell Cullum
There was a growl, and a white bulk rushed him.
"The Time Traders" by Andre Norton
You do not seem to think, after all, that mere bulk or weight adds anything to the value of the manure.
"Talks on Manures" by Joseph Harris
There is no regular organization of the brokers operating here, though these men control the bulk of the sales made in the street.
"Lights and Shadows of New York Life" by James D. McCabe
The dragon had risen, hovering now in the water directly before the entrance to Ross's hole, its neck curled back against its bulk.
"Key Out of Time" by Andre Alice Norton
The bulk of the Mecca garrison were at this time at Taif.
"With the British Army in The Holy Land" by Henry Osmond Lock
A single, glistening tube, of enormous bulk, a mile in length, a thousand feet in diameter.
"Invaders from the Infinite" by John Wood Campbell
The bulk of Wynkyn de Worde's books to the day of his death were printed with these types.
"A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898" by Henry R. Plomer
The bulk of it can be blamed on unsound land use.
"The Nation's River" by United States Department of the Interior
***
In poetry:
More mild than sanguinary man,
Whose servant thou hast prov'd,
Oft in his frantic battle's van
Thy bulk has stood unmoved:
"The Elephant" by William Hayley
And when ten million such were slain
To please one crazy king,
Man, schooled in bulk by fear and pain,
Grew weary of the thing;
"The Benefactors" by Rudyard Kipling
Profounds of fire whose maelstroms froth
To gathered armies of offense;
Cohorts unweariable, immense,
And bulks wherewith the Dark is wroth;
"The Testimony of the Suns" by George Sterling
Athwart a sky of brass rich ribs of gold;
A bullion bulk the wide Ohio lies;
Beneath the sunset, billowing manifold,
The purple hill-tops rise.
"Along The Ohio" by Madison Julius Cawein
"The builder's art
Has proved each part
Throughout her breadth and length;
Deep in the hulk,
Of her mighty bulk,
Ten thousand Titans' strength."
"The Word Of An Engineer" by James Weldon Johnson
You'd see the last new song of all
Nail'd with four tacks against the wall.
Nay, the whole length of Chevy Chase
Found in his little bulk a place.
"The Cobbler" by William Hutton
In news:
City bans bulk land-bank sales after lopsided deal with not-for-profit .
Global Oceanic Carriers Acquires Bulk Carrier.
Global Oceanic Carriers Limited, a global provider of marine transportation services for dry bulk cargoes, announces today that the company has entered into an agreement to purchase a Handymax vessel charter-free for $37m.
THE TOWN OF CLIFTON PARK AND THE TOWN OF BALLSTON HOST A BULK WASTE / ELECTRONICS DROP OFF DAY.
Bulk of IG office's staff likely to be laid off, reassigned.
The collision between USS Porter (DDG 78) and the Panamanian-flagged bulk oil tanker M/V Otowasan occurred at approximately 1:00 am local time.
The bulk of CIOs in an Ovum survey said they expect their budgets to remain flat after the recession-ravaged 2009.
Although Jake Gyllenhaal is getting a lot of lusty looks for his bulked up "Prince of Persia " body, he reveals that it was actually his appearance in 2005's "Jarhead" that garnered the most attention from the fairer sex.
The actor, noticeably bulked up and sporting bulging muscles and a warrior-length hairdo, is a sword-wielding hero in Prince of Persia .
"Whether it is bulk petrochemicals or specialties we seek a technological advantage over competitors," Schlanger says.
Wegmans is recalling Turkish Pine Nut s sold in the Bulk Foods Department between July 1 and October 18, 2011, because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.
This emerging category of hybrids delivers DSLR-grade images sans the DLSR-grade bulk.
WHEN Thomas Dirmyer spoke at last year's Intermodal Bulk Liquid Symposium, he addressed the economic uncertainty and predicted a difficult environment for 2011.
These pollinators take a variety of forms — from hummingbirds to bats to lemurs — but the bulk of them are insects.
The most detailed data yet on emissions of heat-trapping gases show that US power plants are responsible for the bulk of the pollution blamed for global warming.
***
In science:
The bulk of the section will be devoted to the estimates of moments presented in Proposition 1.6.2.
Random unitaries in non-commutative tori, and an asymptotic model for q-circular systems
Recently this conjecture was proven for unitary invariant ensembles (2.13) in the bulk of the spectrum ([PS], [BI], [DKMLVZ], [De]) and for some classes of Wigner matrices in the bulk of the spectrum [Jo4] and at the edge [So4].
Determinantal random point fields
Second, the eigenvalues may originate from the bulk of the Dirac spectrum.
Random Matrix Theory and Chiral Symmetry in QCD
This implies that the origin, λ = 0, is a special point of the spectrum and that we have to consider the Rk separately in the bulk of the spectrum and near λ = 0.
Random Matrix Theory and Chiral Symmetry in QCD
The bulk of the spectrum is the middle region, far from either edge.
Random Matrix Theory and Chiral Symmetry in QCD
***