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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..

Tortulous :: Tortulous (a.) Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.

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

Curb :: Curb (n.) A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness..

Emphysema :: Emphysema (n.) A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue.

Huff :: Huff (n.) A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.

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

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

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style..

Huff :: Huff (v. i.) To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs..

Quinsy :: Quinsy (n.) An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey..

Knot :: Knot (n.) A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance..

Chase :: Chase (n.) The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.

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

Hove :: Hove (v. i. & t.) To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell.

Infarce :: Infarce (v. t.) To stuff; to swell.

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

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

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..

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

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