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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..

Intumescence :: Intumescence (n.) The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat..

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

Plump :: Plump (a.) To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped..

Pod :: Pod (v. i.) To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods..

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..

Huff :: Huff (n.) A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.

Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style..

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

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

Wave :: Wave (v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm..

Hone :: Hone (n.) A kind of swelling in the cheek.

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

Swale :: Swal (imp.) Swelled.

Mandrill :: Mandrill (n.) a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus, / Papio, mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red..

Upswell :: Upswell (v. i.) To swell or rise up.

Boswellian :: Boswellian (a.) Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson..

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

Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase in height; elevation; rise.

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

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