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Plumper :: Plumper (n.) One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks..

Thoroughpin :: Thoroughpin (n.) A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through..

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..

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

Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance.

Magniloquent :: Magniloquent (a.) Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.

Strut :: Strut (v. t.) To swell; to bulge out.

Bloat :: Bloat (v. i.) To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.

Botch :: Botch (n.) A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.

Bunchy :: Bunchy (a.) Swelling out in bunches.

Pursy :: Pursy (a.) Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence..

Bladder :: Bladder (v. t.) To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.

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

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

Rise :: Rise (v.) To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer..

Augment :: Augment (v. t.) To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil..

Mandrill :: Mandrill (n.) a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus, / Papio, mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red..

Piles :: Piles (n. pl.) The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids. [The singular pile is sometimes used.].

Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase in height; elevation; rise.

Swelling :: Swelling (n.) The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride..

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