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Puff :: Puff (v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air..

Swell :: Swell (n.) A gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound; the crescendo and diminuendo combined; -- generally indicated by the sign.

Node :: Node (n.) A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling..

Swell :: Swell (n.) The act of swelling.

Nodosity :: Nodosity (n.) The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness.

Bias :: Bias (a.) Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

Swelling :: Swelling (n.) The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride..

Turgent :: Turgent (a.) Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors..

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..

Outswell :: Outswell (v. t.) To swell beyond; to overflow.

Tumorous :: Tumorous (a.) Swelling; protuberant.

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

Bubonocele :: Bubonocele (n.) An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo..

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

Intumesce :: Intumesce (v. i.) To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe..

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..

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

Bloat :: Bloat (v. i.) To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.

Swollen :: Swollen () p. p. of Swell.

Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound..

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