Definition of swell

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Swell (v. i.) To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big..

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Hove :: Hove (v. i. & t.) To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell.
Detumescence :: Detumescence (n.) Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.
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..
Blain :: Blain (n.) An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like..
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..
Piles :: Piles (n. pl.) The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids. [The singular pile is sometimes used.].
Blub :: Blub (v. t. & i.) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping..
Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh..
Unswell :: Unswell (v. t.) To sink from a swollen state; to subside.
Swollen :: Swelled (p. p.) of Swel.
Burnish :: Burnish (v. i.) To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large..
Inflate :: Inflate (v. t.) Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity..
Windgall :: Windgall (n.) A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.
Intumescence :: Intumescence (n.) The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat..
Magniloquent :: Magniloquent (a.) Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.
Grossification :: Grossification (n.) The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow.
Cynanche :: Cynanche (n.) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing..
Bowge :: Bowge (v. i.) To swell out. See Bouge.
Extumescence :: Extumescence (n.) A swelling or rising.
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