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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Suricat :: Surgy (a.) Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.
Gourdy :: Gourdy (a.) Swelled in the legs.
Node :: Node (n.) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint..
Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh..
Belly :: Belly (v. i.) To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge..
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..
Hematoma :: Hematoma (n.) A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin.
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride..
Plumper :: Plumper (n.) One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks..
Extuberance :: Extuberance (n.) A swelling or rising; protuberance.
Domineer :: Domineer (v. t.) To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents..
Big :: Big (superl.) Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively.
Outswell :: Outswell (v. t.) To exceed in swelling.
Bolstered :: Bolstered (a.) Swelled out.
Jug :: "Jug (n.) A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side..
Inflammation :: Inflammation (n.) A morbid condition of any part of the body, consisting in congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain..
Plump :: Plump (a.) To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like..
Pod :: Pod (v. i.) To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods..
Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used f
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