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Big :: Big (superl.) Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively.

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..

Knob :: Knob (n.) A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone..

Blub :: Blub (v. t. & i.) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount..

Protuberance :: Protuberance (n.) That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation.

Swellish :: Swelling (n.) an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling..

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

Wave :: Wave (v. i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation..

Ballooned :: Ballooned (a.) Swelled out like a balloon.

Bouge :: Bouge (v. i.) To swell out.

Extuberance :: Extuberance (n.) A swelling or rising; protuberance.

Catarrh :: Catarrh (n.) An inflammatory affection of any mucous membrane, in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as, catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder..

Nodosity :: Nodosity (n.) The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness.

Entasis :: Entasis (n.) A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.

Huff :: Huff (v. i.) To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense..

Boswellism :: Boswellism (n.) The style of Boswell.

Rise :: Rise (v.) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like..

Tortulous :: Tortulous (a.) Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.

Tumefy :: Tumefy (v. i.) To rise in a tumor; to swell.

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