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Jointworm :: "Jointworm (n.) The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish..

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

Estuate :: Estuate (v. i.) To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.

Windgall :: Windgall (n.) A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.

Entasis :: Entasis (n.) A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.

Turgescent :: Turgescent (a.) Becoming turgid or inflated; swelling; growing big.

Bouge :: Bouge (v. i.) To swell out.

Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style..

Extuberance :: Extuberance (n.) A swelling or rising; protuberance.

Emphysematous :: Emphysematous (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, emphysema; swelled; bloated..

Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle..

Swell :: 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..

Quinsy :: Quinsy (n.) An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey..

Blub :: Blub (v. t. & i.) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping..

Strove :: Strout (v. t.) To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.

Chilblain :: Chilblain (n.) A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration..

Flood :: Flood (v. i.) The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood..

Turgesce :: Turgesce (v. i.) To become turgid; to swell or be inflated.

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