Definition of swollen

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Swollen () p. p. of Swell.

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Tick :: Tick (n.) Any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals. When filled with blood they become ovate, much swollen, and usually livid red in color. Some of the species often attach themselves to the human body. The young are active and have at first but six legs..
Bollen :: Bollen (a.) Swollen; puffed out.
Prester :: Prester (n.) One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement.
Billowy :: Billowy (a.) Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
Hulchy :: Hulchy (a.) Swollen; gibbous.
Swelling :: Swollen () of Swel.
Bloated :: Bloated (p. a.) Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous..
Flood :: Flood (v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley..
Gouty :: Gouty (a.) Swollen, as if from gout..
Blubbery :: Blubbery (a.) Swollen; protuberant.
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..
Extuberant :: Extuberant (a.) Swollen out; protuberant.
Detumescence :: Detumescence (n.) Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.
Barb :: Barb (n.) Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen..
Blubbered :: Blubbered (p. p. & a.) Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip..
Turgid :: Turgid (a.) Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit..
Puffin :: Puffin (n.) An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot..
Spew :: Spew (v. i.) To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost..
Utriculate :: Utriculate (a.) Resembling a bladder; swollen like a bladder; inflated; utricular.
Swoln :: Swollen (a.) Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams..
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