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Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force..

Boiling :: Boiling (a.) Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion..

Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note..

Blow :: Blow (v. t.) To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass..

Dilate :: Dilate (v. t.) To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat..

Flood :: Flood (v. i.) The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood..

Strumatic :: Struma (n.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses..

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

Bulb :: Bulb (v. i.) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

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..

Gourdy :: Gourdy (a.) Swelled in the legs.

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

Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride..

Size :: Size (v. t.) To swell; to increase the bulk of.

Hoarseness :: Hoarseness (n.) Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords..

Plump :: Plump (a.) To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped..

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

Olibanum :: Olibanum (n.) The fragrant gum resin of various species of Boswellia; Oriental frankincense.

Bunt :: Bunt (v. i.) To swell out; as, the sail bunts..

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