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bunched, ppl. a.|bʌnʃt|
[f. bunch n.1 and v.2 + -ed.]
†a. Having or forming a protuberance; covered with swellings; humped; bulging, protuberant. bunched line, use by Guillim for: A waved line. Obs.
b. bunched up, bunched out: (of a dress) gathered into a bunch; also of other things than a dress.
†c. buncht-back adj. = bunch-backed. Obs.
1519W. Horman Vulg. 31 His nase was bounchyd aboue, and flat downeward. 1578Banister Hist. Man i. 20 The vse of the swelled or bounched parte of the first Vertebre. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 34 Those disciples who counterfeited to be..buncht backe like their master Plato. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry ii. iii. (1660) 54 A Bunched Line is that which is carried with round reflections or bowings up and down. 1791Cowper Odyss. xix. 307 His back was bunch'd. 1883Harper's Mag. Mar. 532/1 Children with bunched-out gowns. 1917D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 62 A bunched-up deer, its four little feet Clustered dead. 1934Burlington Mag. Mar. 128/1 A wild movement of bunched-up draperies. 1959D. Davie Forests of Lithuania iv. 42 And a knot Of bunched-up mosses.
d. Bot. Having convex protuberances.
1776J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 378 Fascicularis, bunched. 1900B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms, Bunched, gibbous.
e. Clustered, gathered into a bunch or bunches. Cf. bunch v.2 2.
1904R. J. Farrer Garden Asia 42 The ground is thick with the bunched stars of a wee blue gentian. 1964Economist 14 Nov. 737/2 ‘Bunched gains’—heavy realisations coming together in one year that would jack up the applicable rate of tax. |