Definition of swell

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Swell (v. i.) To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell..

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Size :: Size (v. t.) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
Infarce :: Infarce (v. t.) To stuff; to swell.
Bolstered :: Bolstered (a.) Swelled out.
Surge :: Surge (n.) A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind..
Sea-gait :: Sea-gait (n.) A long, rolling swell of the sea..
Anticor :: Anticor (n.) A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart..
Flood :: Flood (v. i.) A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation..
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..
Swelltoad :: Swellish (a.) Dandified; stylish.
Mosquito :: Mosquito (n.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic..
Hove :: Hove (v. i. & t.) To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell.
Ampullaceous :: Ampullaceous (a.) Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling.
Detumescence :: Detumescence (n.) Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.
Wavy :: Wavy (a.) Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves.
Vessignon :: Vessignon (n.) A soft swelling on a horse's leg; a windgall.
Volume :: Volume (n.) Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
Huff :: Huff (v. i.) To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs..
Strop :: Stroot (v. i.) To swell out; to strut.
Puffer :: Puffer (n.) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish..
Pimple :: Pimple (n.) Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.
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