Definition of swell

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

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Vessignon :: Vessignon (n.) A soft swelling on a horse's leg; a windgall.
Heaving :: Heaving (n.) A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing.
Size :: Size (v. t.) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
Tumefy :: Tumefy (v. i.) To rise in a tumor; to swell.
Nodosity :: Nodosity (n.) The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness.
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big..
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..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer..
Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style..
Intumescent :: Intumescent (a.) Swelling up; expanding.
Turgesce :: Turgesce (v. i.) To become turgid; to swell or be inflated.
Belly :: Belly (v. t.) To cause to swell out; to fill.
Curb :: Curb (n.) A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness..
Swelling :: Swelling (n.) A protuberance; a prominenc.
Boswellism :: Boswellism (n.) The style of Boswell.
Cynanche :: Cynanche (n.) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing..
Blubber :: Blubber (v. t.) To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride..
Boswellian :: Boswellian (a.) Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson..
Bowge :: Bowge (v. i.) To swell out. See Bouge.
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