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Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.

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

Bulk :: Bulk (v. i.) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell..

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

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

Tumorous :: Tumorous (a.) Swelling; protuberant.

Surge :: Surge (n.) A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind..

Domineer :: Domineer (v. t.) To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents..

Vessignon :: Vessignon (n.) A soft swelling on a horse's leg; a windgall.

Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance.

Strumatic :: Struma (n.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses..

Bur Fish :: Bur fish () A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish..

Hove :: Hove (v. i. & t.) To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell.

Emphysema :: Emphysema (n.) A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue.

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

Pulvinated :: Pulvinated (a.) Curved convexly or swelled; as, a pulvinated frieze..

Cruels :: Cruels (n. pl.) Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.

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..

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

Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression..

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