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Wave :: Wave (v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm..

Swelling :: Swellfish (n.) Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon..

Knob :: Knob (n.) A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone..

Swollen :: Swollen () p. p. of Swell.

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..

Capellet :: Capellet (n.) A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down..

Bias :: Bias (a.) Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

Bag :: Bag (v. i.) To swell with arrogance.

Rise :: Rise (v.) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like..

Heaving :: Heaving (n.) A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing.

Blub :: Blub (v. t. & i.) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping..

Overswell :: Overswell (v. t. & i.) To swell or rise above; to overflow.

Strout :: Strout (v. i.) To swell; to puff out; to project.

Inflammation :: Inflammation (n.) A morbid condition of any part of the body, consisting in congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain..

Sea-gait :: Sea-gait (n.) A long, rolling swell of the sea..

Smut :: Smut (v. t.) An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus Ustilago. Ustilago segetum, or U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis..

Huff :: Huff (v. i.) To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs..

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..

Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used f

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

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