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Protuberance :: Protuberance (n.) That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation.

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

Swollen :: Swelled (p. p.) of Swel.

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

Inturgescence :: Inturgescence (n.) A swelling; the act of swelling, or state of being swelled..

Bulb :: Bulb (v. i.) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

Mouth :: Mouth (v. t.) To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.

Beat :: Beat (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8..

Pursy :: Pursy (a.) Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence..

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

Inflate :: Inflate (v. t.) Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity..

Bur Fish :: Bur fish () A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish..

Estuate :: Estuate (v. i.) To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.

Huff :: Huff (n.) A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.

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..

Swelt :: Swelltoad (n.) A swellfish.

Swellfish :: Swelldom (n.) People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively..

Wavy :: Wavy (a.) Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves.

Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound..

Turgescent :: Turgescent (a.) Becoming turgid or inflated; swelling; growing big.

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