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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..

Oedema :: Oedema (n.) A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

Bump :: Bump (n.) A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance..

Huff :: Huff (v. t.) To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air..

Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle..

Tragacanth :: Tragacanth (n.) A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth..

Surgeon :: Surgent (a.) Rising; swelling, as a flood..

Spavin :: Spavin (n.) A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself. The resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed..

Swellish :: Swelling (n.) an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling..

Puff :: Puff (n.) To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.

Grossification :: Grossification (n.) The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow.

Aposteme :: Aposteme (n.) An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter.

Pod :: Pod (v. i.) To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods..

Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression..

Upswell :: Upswell (v. i.) To swell or rise up.

Huff :: Huff (v. i.) To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense..

Strut :: Strut (v. t.) To swell; to bulge out.

Boswellian :: Boswellian (a.) Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson..

Extumescence :: Extumescence (n.) A swelling or rising.

Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style..

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