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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Bias :: Bias (a.) Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
Boiling :: Boiling (a.) Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion..
Huff :: Huff (n.) A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.
Mouth :: Mouth (v. t.) To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.
Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase in height; elevation; rise.
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..
Smut :: Smut (v. t.) An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus Ustilago. Ustilago segetum, or U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis..
Botch :: Botch (n.) A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
Swell :: Swell (n.) Gradual increase.
Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force..
Strumatic :: Struma (n.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses..
Urocele :: Urocele (n.) A morbid swelling of the scrotum due to extravasation of urine into it.
Heave :: Heave (v. t.) To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom..
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride..
Blain :: Blain (n.) An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister..
Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note..
Belly :: Belly (v. i.) To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge..
Embillow :: Embillow (v. i.) To swell or heave like a ///// of the sea.
Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population..
Bur Fish :: Bur fish () A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish..
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