A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
A hump; a protuberance.
A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).
To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).
To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.
To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.
To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.
A so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.
Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.
The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.