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Turgid :: Turgid (a.) Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking..

Ranine :: Ranine (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein..

Pimple :: Pimple (n.) Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.

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

Filipendulous :: Filipendulous (a.) Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets..

Node :: Node (n.) A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling..

Inturgescence :: Inturgescence (n.) A swelling; the act of swelling, or state of being swelled..

Mouse :: Mouse (n.) A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow.

Emphysema :: Emphysema (n.) A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue.

Ancome :: Ancome (n.) A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow..

Puff :: Puff (n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance..

Crest :: Crest (n.) A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc..

Astrut :: Astrut (a. & adv.) Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner..

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

Oedema :: Oedema (n.) A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

Tumor :: Tumor (n.) Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.

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

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style..

Jointworm :: "Jointworm (n.) The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop..

Outswell :: Outswell (v. t.) To exceed in swelling.

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