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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

Swell :: Swell (n.) Gradual increase.

Surgeon :: Surgent (a.) Rising; swelling, as a flood..

Mouse :: Mouse (n.) A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow.

Heaving :: Heaving (n.) A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing.

Sea-gait :: Sea-gait (n.) A long, rolling swell of the sea..

Extuberance :: Extuberance (n.) A swelling or rising; protuberance.

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..

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

Urcelate :: Urcelate (a.) Shaped like a pitcher or urn; swelling below, and contrasted at the orifice, as a calyx or corolla..

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..

Sea :: Sea (n.) The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea..

Honewort :: Honewort (n.) An umbelliferous plant of the genus Sison (S. Amomum); -- so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone.

Belly :: Belly (v. t.) To cause to swell out; to fill.

Jointworm :: "Jointworm (n.) The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop..

Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression..

Tumefaction :: Tumefaction (n.) The act or process of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumor; a swelling..

Diodon :: Diodon (n.) A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs..

Blub :: Blub (v. t. & i.) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping..

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