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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BULG'ING, ppr. or a. Swelling out; bilging. As an adjective,protuberant.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: curving or bulging outward [syn: convex, bulging] [ant: concave]
2: curving outward [syn: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bulge Bulge, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bulged; p. pr. & vb. n. Bulging.] 1. To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges. 2. To bilge, as a ship; to founder. And scattered navies bulge on distant shores. --Broome.

Moby Thesaurus

SRO, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bellied, bellying, bellylike, billowing, billowy, bloated, bosomy, brimful, brimming, bulbose, bulbous, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, bursting, capacity, chock-full, chuck-full, congested, convex, cram-full, crammed, distended, farci, filled, flush, full, full to bursting, hillocky, hummocky, jam-packed, moutonnee, overfull, overstuffed, packed, packed like sardines, plenary, pneumatic, potbellied, pouching, ready to burst, replete, rotund, round, rounded, rounded out, satiated, saturated, soaked, standing room only, stuffed, surfeited, swelling, swollen, topful, verrucated, verrucose, warty