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Chilblain :: Chilblain (n.) A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration..

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

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle..

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

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

Fish-bellied :: Fish-bellied (a.) Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail..

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..

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..

Aposteme :: Aposteme (n.) An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter.

Urocele :: Urocele (n.) A morbid swelling of the scrotum due to extravasation of urine into it.

Undulatory :: Undulatory (a.) Moving in the manner of undulations, or waves; resembling the motion of waves, which successively rise or swell rise or swell and fall; pertaining to a propagated alternating motion, similar to that of waves..

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

Kohl-rabi :: Kohl-rabi (n.) A variety of cabbage, in which the edible part is a large, turnip-shaped swelling of the stem, above the surface of the ground..

Strangulate :: Strangles (n.) A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells..

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

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

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

Convex :: Convex (a.) Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave..

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

Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness..

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