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

Unswell :: Unswell (v. t.) To sink from a swollen state; to subside.

Rise :: Rise (v.) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like..

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

Fish-bellied :: Fish-bellied (a.) Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail..

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

Pimple :: Pimple (n.) Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.

Swell :: Swell (n.) A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells..

Extumescence :: Extumescence (n.) A swelling or rising.

Astrut :: Astrut (a. & adv.) Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner..

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..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle..

Burnish :: Burnish (v. i.) To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large..

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..

Bombast :: Bombast (v. t.) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

Capellet :: Capellet (n.) A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down..

Mandrill :: Mandrill (n.) a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus, / Papio, mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red..

Farce :: Farce (v. t.) To swell out; to render pompous.

Tumor :: Tumor (n.) Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.

Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase in height; elevation; rise.

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