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Grossification :: Grossification (n.) The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow.

Puff :: Puff (n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance..

Hove :: Hove (v. i. & t.) To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell.

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..

Swellfish :: Swelldom (n.) People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively..

Oedema :: Oedema (n.) A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

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

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

Puffer :: Puffer (n.) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish..

Detumescence :: Detumescence (n.) Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.

Cynanche :: Cynanche (n.) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing..

Farce :: Farce (v. t.) To swell out; to render pompous.

Dilate :: Dilate (v. t.) To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat..

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..

Intumesce :: Intumesce (v. i.) To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe..

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..

Strop :: Stroot (v. i.) To swell out; to strut.

Thoroughpin :: Thoroughpin (n.) A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through..

Suricat :: Surgy (a.) Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.

Crest :: Crest (n.) A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc..

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