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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Knot :: Knot (n.) A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance..
Blain :: Blain (n.) An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister..
Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase in height; elevation; rise.
Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh..
Mouth :: Mouth (v. t.) To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.
Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note..
Strop :: Stroot (v. i.) To swell out; to strut.
Bulge :: Bulge (v. i.) To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges..
Huff :: Huff (n.) A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.
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..
Heave :: Heave (n.) An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like..
Sea :: Sea (n.) The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea..
Upswell :: Upswell (v. i.) To swell or rise up.
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell..
Astrut :: Astrut (a. & adv.) Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner..
Bigly :: Bigly (a.) In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently..
Cruels :: Cruels (n. pl.) Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.
Hove :: Hove (v. i. & t.) To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell.
Detumescence :: Detumescence (n.) Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.
Swell :: 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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