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Turgesce :: Turgesce (v. i.) To become turgid; to swell or be inflated.

Detumescence :: Detumescence (n.) Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.

Plump :: Plump (a.) To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped..

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

Bouge :: Bouge (v. i.) To swell out.

Cynanche :: Cynanche (n.) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing..

Bubonocele :: Bubonocele (n.) An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo..

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..

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

Puffy :: Puffy (a.) Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor..

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

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

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

Intumescent :: Intumescent (a.) Swelling up; expanding.

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..

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

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

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

Bulk :: Bulk (v. i.) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell..

Swell :: Swelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swel.

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