tumulosity

English

Noun

tumulosity (countable and uncountable, plural tumulosities)

1. (rare) Bump, mound, or bumpiness.
   • 1827, “The Court of Death: A Dramatic Sketch”, in Demetrius Wyseman, editor, The Quality Papers, William Marsh, page 48:

     […] Fielding is censuring Tom Paine for uttering indecencies—Lord Chesterfield labouring to obviate the tumulosity of Æsop's back, […]

   • 1964, Donald Barthelme, "A Picture History of the War", reprinted in Flying to America: 45 More Stories, Shoemaker Hoard (2007), →ISBN, page 259:

     Why have they stuck stones in my kidneys, devaluated my tumulosity, retracted my hair?

   • 1973, Acta Entomol. Bohemoslov, volume 70, page 404:

     […] a pair of small swellings situated between eyes; tumulosities more marked (papilliform) laterally […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tumulosity.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tumulosity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)