What is "humped"

Usage examples of "humped".

Full in this rapid wake, and many fathoms in the rear, swam a huge, humped old bull, which by his comparatively slow progress, as well as by the unusual yellowish incrustations over-growing him, seemed afflicted with the jaundice, or some other infirmity.

I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.

Its dark, humped form was slumped over, looking like a shaggy, debilitated volcano.

The mouths of the men who came from it to trade were too wide, and the way their turbans were humped up in two points above their foreheads was in especially bad taste.

Uneasiness rustled through the taverns along that waterfront, and after a while the dark widemouthed merchants with humped turbans and short feet clumped steathily ashore to seek the bazaars of the jewellers.

So Carter inferred that the merchants of the humped turbans, hearing of his daring search for the Great Ones in their castle of Kadath, had decided to take him away and deliver him to Nyarlathotep for whatever nameless bounty might be offered for such a prize.

The one who lusts after Athena so much that he humped her thigh just as this dog would if the dog had no manners.

Infrared imagery showed hot buildings and cold corpses and the motion of equally cold humped and headless creatures who were doing the killing.

A vague amorphous shape the size of a hippopotamus, it humped and oozed along in the absence of legs or cilia, making slow but inevitable progress toward a nondestination.

The strange hut he had seen in the carving now stood before him, long and humped, the huge bones and long tusks comprising its framework visible between gaps in the thick, umber fur-skins clothing it.

The trader track would fade before long, he recalled, the dyke on his right dwindling, the road itself becoming a sandy swath humped with ant nests, bone-white driftwood and yellow knots of grass, with floods wiping the ruts away every spring.

A central firepit and humped clay bread-oven was directly before them, radiating heat.

He nudged his horse forward, down the wide trader road as it wound between groves and across gently humped glades.

Beyond the rink, the floor of the cave was one huge mass of blue ice, humped and creased, refracting the lights and fading into the distance.

Its smooth flows humped over one another, pitted everywhere with tiny craters.