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Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.

Hematoma :: Hematoma (n.) A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin.

Tumefy :: Tumefy (v. t.) To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up..

Swell :: Swell (n.) A showy, dashing person; a dandy..

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

Plumper :: Plumper (n.) One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks..

Turgescency :: Turgescency (n.) The act of swelling, or the state of being swollen, or turgescent..

Lampas :: Lampas (n.) An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse; -- called also lampers.

Protuberation :: Protuberation (n.) The act of swelling beyond the surrounding surface.

Smut :: Smut (v. t.) An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus Ustilago. Ustilago segetum, or U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis..

Toadfish :: Toadfish (n.) A swellfish.

Styan :: Sty (v. i.) An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.

Pulvinated :: Pulvinated (a.) Curved convexly or swelled; as, a pulvinated frieze..

Bulge :: Bulge (v. i.) To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges..

Ventricous :: Ventricous (a.) Swelling out on one side or unequally; bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla..

Urocele :: Urocele (n.) A morbid swelling of the scrotum due to extravasation of urine into it.

Flood :: Flood (v. i.) A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation..

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

Ripieno :: Ripieno (a.) Filling up; supplementary; supernumerary; -- a term applied to those instruments which only swell the mass or tutti of an orchestra, but are not obbligato..

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..

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