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Definition of swell

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Swell (v. i.) To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation..

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Boss :: Boss (n.) Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood..

Bag :: Bag (v. i.) To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter..

Knap :: Knap (n.) A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop..

Increscent :: Increscent (a.) Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging.

Hone :: Hone (n.) A kind of swelling in the cheek.

Bombastry :: Bombastry (n.) Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.

Knob :: Knob (n.) A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone..

Bigly :: Bigly (a.) In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently..

Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase in height; elevation; rise.

Swelling :: Swellfish (n.) Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon..

Bolstered :: Bolstered (a.) Swelled out.

Volume :: Volume (n.) Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.

Turgid :: Turgid (a.) Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit..

Swell :: Swell (n.) The act of swelling.

Ancome :: Ancome (n.) A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow..

Throstling :: Throstling (n.) A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation..

Ranine :: Ranine (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like..

Huff :: Huff (v. i.) To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense..

Mosquito :: Mosquito (n.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic..