gibbosity†, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion; camber, cahot
[U.S.].
thank-ye-ma'am [U.S.].
swell.
intumescence; tumour [Brit.], tumor; tubercle, tuberosity [Anat.];
excrescence; hump, hunch, bunch.
boss, embossment, hub, hubble; [convex body parts] tooth [U.S.],
knob, elbow, process, apophysis†, condyle, bulb, node, nodule,
nodosity†, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump; sugar loaf &c (sharpness) 253;
bow; mamelon†; molar; belly, corporation†, pot belly, gut [Coll.];
withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange.
[convexities on skin] pimple, zit [Slang]; wen, wheel, papula
[Med.], pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle†, corn,
wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus†, fungus, fungosity†, exostosis†,
bleb, blister, blain†; boil &c (disease) 655; airbubble†, blob, papule,
verruca.
[convex body parts on chest] papilla, nipple, teat, tit [Vulg.],
titty [Vulg.], boob [Vulg.], knocker [Vulg.], pap, breast, dug,
mammilla†.
[prominent convexity on the face] proboscis, nose, neb, beak,
snout, nozzle, schnoz [Coll.].
peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag.
cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves; pilaster.
relief, relievo [It], cameo; bassorilievo†, mezzorilevo†,
altorivievo; low relief, bas relief [Fr.], high relief.
hill &c (height) 206; cape, promontory, mull; forehead, foreland†;
point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur; naze†, ness.
V. be prominent &c adj.; project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge [Fr.],
bunch; jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out; stick up, bristle up,
start up, cock up, shoot up; swell over, hang over, bend over; beetle.
render prominent &c adj.; raise 307; emboss, chase.
[become convex] belly out.
Adj. convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting &c v.; bossed,
embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy; clavate, clavated†, claviform;
hummocky†, moutonne†, mammiliform†; papulous†, papilose†; hemispheric,
bulbous; bowed, arched; bold; bellied; tuberous, tuberculous; tumous†;
cornute†, odontoid†; lentiform†, lenticular; gibbous; club shaped, hubby
[U.S.], hubbly [U.S.], knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform†,
subclavate†, torose†, ventricose†, verrucose†.
salient, in relief, raised, repousse; bloated &c, (expanded) 194.