1. [n]  any collection in its entirety; "she bought the whole caboodle"
2. [n]  a grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers"
3. [n]  an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd"
4. [v]  gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist"; "The students bunched up at the registration desk"
5. [v]  form into a bunch; "The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom"

1. \Bunch\, n. [Akin to OSw. & Dan. bunke heap, Icel. bunki
   heap, pile, bunga tumor, protuberance; cf. W. pwng cluster.
   Cf. {Bunk}.]
   1. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
            They will carry . . . their treasures upon the
            bunches of camels.                    --Isa. xxx. 6.
   2. A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the
      same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of
      grapes; a bunch of keys.
   3. (Mining) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished
      from a continuous vein. --Page.
   

2. \Bunch\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bunched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Bunching}.]
   To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant
   or round.
         Bunching out into a large round knob at one end.
                                                  --Woodward.
   

3. \Bunch\, v. t.
   To form into a bunch or bunches.
   

(1.) A bundle of twigs (Ex. 12:22). (2.) Bunch or cake of raisins (2 Sam. 16:1). (3.) The "bunch of a camel" (Isa. 30:6).