Definition of swell

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Swell (n.) Gradual increase.

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Torose :: Torose (a.) Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.
Knob :: Knob (n.) A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone..
Spavin :: Spavin (n.) A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself. The resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed..
Belly :: Belly (v. t.) To cause to swell out; to fill.
Protuberation :: Protuberation (n.) The act of swelling beyond the surrounding surface.
Puff :: Puff (n.) To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
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..
Protuberate :: Protuberate (v. i.) To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out..
Knot :: Knot (n.) A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance..
Increscent :: Increscent (a.) Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging.
Ripieno :: Ripieno (a.) Filling up; supplementary; supernumerary; -- a term applied to those instruments which only swell the mass or tutti of an orchestra, but are not obbligato..
Strany :: Strangury (n.) A swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it..
Apostemate :: Apostemate (v. i.) To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus.
Billowy :: Billowy (a.) Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
Cruels :: Cruels (n. pl.) Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.
Puff :: Puff (n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance..
Tumored :: Tumored (a.) Distended; swelled.
Pimple :: Pimple (n.) Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.
Ballooned :: Ballooned (a.) Swelled out like a balloon.
Cynanche :: Cynanche (n.) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing..
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