Definition of swell

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Swell (n.) A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor..

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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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