bunch

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A group of things growing close together; a cluster or clump.
• noun A group of like items or individuals gathered or placed together.
• noun Informal A group of people usually having a common interest or association.
• noun Informal A considerable number or amount; a lot.
• noun A small lump or swelling; a bump.
• intransitive verb To gather or form into a cluster.
• intransitive verb To gather together into a group.
• intransitive verb To gather (fabric) into folds.
• intransitive verb To form a cluster or group.
• intransitive verb To be gathered together in folds, as fabric.
• intransitive verb To swell; protrude.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To swell out in a protuberance; be protuberant or round.
• To make a bunch or bunches of; bring together into a bunch or aggregate; concentrate: as, to bunch ballots for distribution; to bunch profits; to bunch the hits in a game of base-ball.
• To beat; strike.
• noun A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump.
• noun A cluster, collection, or tuft of things of the same kind connected in growth or joined together mechanically: as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of feathers on a hat.
• noun More generally, a cluster or aggregate of any kind: used specifically of ducks, in the sense of a small flock.
• noun In mining, a small mass of ore. See bunchy, 3, and pocket.
• noun In flax-manuf., three bundles or 180,000 yards of linen yarn.
• noun A unit of tale for osiers, reeds, teazels, and the like, with no general or fixed sense.
• noun In mining, the expanded portion of a pipe-line; a place where the pipe does not maintain a uniform cross-section, but is expanded.
• In sugar-beet growing, see block, transitive verb, 8.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
• noun A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together.
• noun (Mining) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.
• transitive verb To form into a bunch or bunches.
• intransitive verb To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A group of a number of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump. Usually fastened together.
• noun cycling The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
• noun An informal body of friends.
• noun informal A considerable amount.
• noun informal An unmentioned amount; a number.
• noun forestry A group of logs tied together for skidding.
• noun geology (mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
• noun textiles 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.
• noun An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
• verb transitive To gather into a bunch.
• verb transitive To gather fabric into folds.
• verb intransitive To form a bunch.
• verb intransitive To be gathered together in folds
• verb intransitive To protrude or swell

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun any collection in its entirety
• verb form into a bunch
• noun an informal body of friends
• noun a grouping of a number of similar things
• verb gather or cause to gather into a cluster