Definition of swell

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Swell (v. i.) To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish..

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Pulvinated :: Pulvinated (a.) Curved convexly or swelled; as, a pulvinated frieze..
Swelltoad :: Swellish (a.) Dandified; stylish.
Size :: Size (v. t.) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
Inturgescence :: Inturgescence (n.) A swelling; the act of swelling, or state of being swelled..
Nodosity :: Nodosity (n.) The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness.
Ripieno :: Ripieno (a.) Filling up; supplementary; supernumerary; -- a term applied to those instruments which only swell the mass or tutti of an orchestra, but are not obbligato..
Belly :: Belly (v. i.) To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge..
Bombast :: Bombast (v. t.) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
Jug :: "Jug (n.) A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side..
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..
Magniloquent :: Magniloquent (a.) Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.
Toadfish :: Toadfish (n.) A swellfish.
Bunt :: Bunt (v. i.) To swell out; as, the sail bunts..
Node :: Node (n.) A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling..
Honewort :: Honewort (n.) An umbelliferous plant of the genus Sison (S. Amomum); -- so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone.
Protuberant :: Protuberant (a.) Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye..
Huff :: Huff (n.) A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.
Node :: Node (n.) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint..
Emphysema :: Emphysema (n.) A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue.
Pod :: Pod (v. i.) To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods..
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