Definition of swell

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

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Pimple :: Pimple (n.) Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.
Toadfish :: Toadfish (n.) A swellfish.
Bladder :: Bladder (v. t.) To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
Swelldom :: Swell (a.) Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood..
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..
Bulb :: Bulb (v. i.) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.
Tumor :: Tumor (n.) Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.
Strop :: Stroot (v. i.) To swell out; to strut.
Hove :: Hove (v. i. & t.) To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell.
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..
Puffy :: Puffy (a.) Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor..
Swollen :: Swollen () p. p. of Swell.
Tortulous :: Tortulous (a.) Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.
Tumulate :: Tumulate (v. i.) To swell.
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..
Botch :: Botch (n.) A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
Magniloquent :: Magniloquent (a.) Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.
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..
Swell :: Swell (n.) A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells..
Bunch :: Bunch (v. i.) To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.
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