ppl. a. . [f. BUNCH sb.1 and v.2 + -ED.] † a. Having or forming a protuberance; covered with swellings; humped; bulging, protuberant. Bunched line, used by Guillim for: A waved line. Obs. b. Bunched up, out: (of a dress) gathered into a bunch. † c. Buncht-back adj. = bunch-backed. Obs.

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1519.  Horman, Vulg., 31. His nase was bounchyd aboue, and flat downeward.

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1578.  Banister, Hist. Man, I. 20. The vse of the swelled or bounched parte of the first Vertebre.

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1603.  Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 34. Those disciples who counterfeited to be … buncht backe like their master Plato.

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1610.  Guillim, Heraldry, II. iii. (1660), 54. A Bunched Line is that which is carried with round reflections or bowings up and down.

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1791.  Cowper, Odyss., XIX. 307. His back was bunch’d.

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1883.  G. H. Boughton, in Harper’s Mag., March, 532/1. Children with bunched-out gowns that came down to the rosettes of their embroidered buff shoes.

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