Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of swell is as below...

Mosquito :: Mosquito (n.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic..

Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used f

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

Bolstered :: Bolstered (a.) Swelled out.

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

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

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

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

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

Surf :: Surf (n.) The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach..

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

Bombastry :: Bombastry (n.) Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.

Tumefy :: Tumefy (v. t.) To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up..

Sea :: Sea (n.) The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea..

Heartswelling :: Heartswelling (a.) Rankling in, or swelling, the heart..

Overswell :: Overswell (v. t. & i.) To swell or rise above; to overflow.

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

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

Swelt :: Swelt () imp. of Swell.

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

Random Fonts

Most Popular