Definition of swell

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Swell (v. i.) To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount..

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Heartswelling :: Heartswelling (a.) Rankling in, or swelling, the heart..
Swollen :: Swollen () p. p. of Swell.
Infarce :: Infarce (v. t.) To stuff; to swell.
Blain :: Blain (n.) An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister..
Huff :: Huff (n.) A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.
Tumulate :: Tumulate (v. i.) To swell.
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish..
Urocele :: Urocele (n.) A morbid swelling of the scrotum due to extravasation of urine into it.
Quinsy :: Quinsy (n.) An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey..
Swelltoad :: Swellish (a.) Dandified; stylish.
Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh..
Swell :: Swell (n.) A showy, dashing person; a dandy..
Bladder :: Bladder (v. t.) To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
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..
Tumor :: Tumor (n.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm..
Flood :: Flood (v. i.) A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation..
Plim :: Plim (v. i.) To swell, as grain or wood with water..
Frankincense :: Frankincense (n.) A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified..
Throstling :: Throstling (n.) A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation..
Mosquito :: Mosquito (n.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic..
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