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Intumescent :: Intumescent (a.) Swelling up; expanding.

Aposteme :: Aposteme (n.) An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter.

Gibbous :: Gibbous (a.) Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon..

Fish-bellied :: Fish-bellied (a.) Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail..

Heaving :: Heaving (n.) A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing.

Curb :: Curb (n.) A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness..

Torose :: Torose (a.) Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves..

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

Toadfish :: Toadfish (n.) A swellfish.

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

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

Blubber :: Blubber (v. t.) To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.

Tumulate :: Tumulate (v. i.) To swell.

Botch :: Botch (n.) A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.

Frankincense :: Frankincense (n.) A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified..

Blow :: Blow (v. t.) To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass..

Honewort :: Honewort (n.) An umbelliferous plant of the genus Sison (S. Amomum); -- so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone.

Huff :: Huff (n.) A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.

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

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