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Puff :: Puff (v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air..

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..

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..

Mouse :: Mouse (n.) A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow.

Bag :: Bag (v. i.) To swell with arrogance.

Bagging :: Bagging (n.) The act of swelling; swelling.

Knot :: Knot (n.) A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance..

Bloat :: Bloat (v. t.) To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness..

Throstling :: Throstling (n.) A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation..

Blow :: Blow (v. t.) To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass..

Styan :: Sty (v. i.) An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.

Urocele :: Urocele (n.) A morbid swelling of the scrotum due to extravasation of urine into it.

Size :: Size (v. t.) To swell; to increase the bulk of.

Entasis :: Entasis (n.) A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.

Extuberance :: Extuberance (n.) A swelling or rising; protuberance.

Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population..

Bulge :: Bulge (n.) A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall..

Ballooned :: Ballooned (a.) Swelled out like a balloon.

Swelldom :: Swell (a.) Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood..

Swelling :: Swelling (n.) A protuberance; a prominenc.

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