Definition of swell

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

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Hone :: Hone (n.) A kind of swelling in the cheek.
Unswell :: Unswell (v. t.) To sink from a swollen state; to subside.
Bunt :: Bunt (v. i.) To swell out; as, the sail bunts..
Mouth :: Mouth (v. t.) To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.
Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness..
Huff :: Huff (v. t.) To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air..
Heartswelling :: Heartswelling (a.) Rankling in, or swelling, the heart..
Farce :: Farce (v. t.) To swell out; to render pompous.
Quinsy :: Quinsy (n.) An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey..
Fish-bellied :: Fish-bellied (a.) Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail..
Emphysema :: Emphysema (n.) A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue.
Upswell :: Upswell (v. i.) To swell or rise up.
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..
Dilate :: Dilate (v. i.) To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.
Extuberate :: Extuberate (v. i.) To swell out.
Inturgescence :: Inturgescence (n.) A swelling; the act of swelling, or state of being swelled..
Swellfish :: Swelldom (n.) People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively..
Volume :: Volume (n.) Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
Throstling :: Throstling (n.) A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation..
Incrassated :: Incrassated (a.) Swelled out on some particular part, as the antennae of certain insects..
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