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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..

Flood :: Flood (v. i.) The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood..

Piles :: Piles (n. pl.) The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids. [The singular pile is sometimes used.].

Pimple :: Pimple (n.) Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.

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

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

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

Surgeon :: Surgent (a.) Rising; swelling, as a flood..

Outswell :: Outswell (v. t.) To swell beyond; to overflow.

Strut :: Strut (v. t.) To swell; to bulge out.

Beal :: Beal (v. i.) To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple..

Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force..

Plim :: Plim (v. i.) To swell, as grain or wood with water..

Huff :: Huff (v. i.) To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs..

Hemorrhoids :: Hemorrhoids (n. pl.) Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods..

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..

Volume :: Volume (n.) Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.

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

Bloat :: Bloat (v. t.) To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness..

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