Signification

• Noun

  1. A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
  2. The illegitimate supplying of laboratory animals that are act
  3. The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
  4. An informal body of friends.
  5. (informal) A considerable amount.
  6. (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
  7. A group of logs tied together for skidding.
  8. An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
  9. The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
  10. An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
  11. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
  12. (obsolete) A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass, 60 of which constitute a way or web.

• Verb