[f. BULGE v.]
† 1. The staving in of the bottom or sides of a ship. Obs.
1611. Cotgr., Enfoncement, a sinking, a bulging.
1648. Herrick, Hesper., I. 31. Nor wrack or bulging thou hast cause to feare.
1755. Magens, Insurances, II. 17. When a Ship … is in danger of bulging.
2. A becoming protuberant, swelling out.
1753. Hogarth, Anal. Beauty, ix. 49. By their bulging too much in their curvature.
1847–9. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., IV. 246/1. The appearance of bulging presented by the distended capsule.
1882. Vines, Sachs’ Bot., 393. Ramification takes place by the bulging out of lateral cells.
3. concr. A protuberance; a swelling.
1831. R. Knox, Cloquet’s Anat., 425. This bulging is named the Additamentum pedum Hippocampi.
1854. Woodward, Mollusca (1856), 152. Animal with … eyes on bulgings at the outer bases of the tentacles.
