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Turgid :: Turgid (a.) Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit..

Knap :: Knap (n.) A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop..

Plim :: Plim (v. i.) To swell, as grain or wood with water..

Protuberate :: Protuberate (v. i.) To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out..

Cruels :: Cruels (n. pl.) Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.

Ripieno :: Ripieno (a.) Filling up; supplementary; supernumerary; -- a term applied to those instruments which only swell the mass or tutti of an orchestra, but are not obbligato..

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

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..

Puff :: Puff (n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance..

Toadfish :: Toadfish (n.) A swellfish.

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.

Bag :: Bag (v. i.) To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter..

Big :: Big (superl.) Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively.

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..

Crest :: Crest (n.) A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc..

Anasarca :: Anasarca (n.) Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin..

Swell :: Swell (n.) Gradual increase.

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

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

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..

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