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Huff :: Huff (n.) A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.

Capellet :: Capellet (n.) A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down..

Dilate :: Dilate (v. i.) To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.

Huff :: Huff (v. t.) To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air..

Wave :: Wave (v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm..

Bunt :: Bunt (v. i.) To swell out; as, the sail bunts..

Bump :: Bump (n.) A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance..

Bag :: Bag (v. i.) To swell with arrogance.

Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style..

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

Swale :: Swal (imp.) Swelled.

Beat :: Beat (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8..

Boswellian :: Boswellian (a.) Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson..

Burnish :: Burnish (v. i.) To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large..

Bubonocele :: Bubonocele (n.) An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo..

Bunch :: Bunch (v. i.) To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.

Blain :: Blain (n.) An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister..

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

Lampas :: Lampas (n.) An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse; -- called also lampers.

Bombast :: Bombast (v. t.) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

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