[f. BULGE v. + -ING2.] That bulges or swells out; bending outward, projecting, protuberant, swelling; baggy.

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1812.  Woodhouse, Astron., x. 80. The bulging equatorial parts of the terrestrial spheroid.

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1851.  Kingsley, Yeast, iii. 45. He was dressed in a … fustian jacket … with bulging, greasy pockets.

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1859.  R. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. R. G. S., XXIX. 101. Irregular bulging lines of rolling hill.

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