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Tumor :: Tumor (n.) Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.

Ventricous :: Ventricous (a.) Swelling out on one side or unequally; bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla..

Plumper :: Plumper (n.) One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks..

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

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..

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..

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

Flood :: Flood (v. i.) A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation..

Wavy :: Wavy (a.) Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves.

Swell :: Swell (n.) A gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound; the crescendo and diminuendo combined; -- generally indicated by the sign.

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

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..

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

Boiling :: Boiling (a.) Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion..

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

Rise :: Rise (n.) Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.

High-swelling :: High-swelling (a.) Inflated; boastful.

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

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

Strout :: Strout (v. i.) To swell; to puff out; to project.

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