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Heartswelling :: Heartswelling (a.) Rankling in, or swelling, the heart..

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..

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

Unswell :: Unswell (v. t.) To sink from a swollen state; to subside.

Magniloquent :: Magniloquent (a.) Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.

Toadfish :: Toadfish (n.) A swellfish.

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

Inflate :: Inflate (v. t.) To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs..

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

Distend :: Distend (v. i.) To become expanded or inflated; to swell.

Inflame :: Inflame (v. t.) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork..

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..

Astrut :: Astrut (a. & adv.) Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner..

Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell..

High-swelling :: High-swelling (a.) Inflated; boastful.

Incrassated :: Incrassated (a.) Swelled out on some particular part, as the antennae of certain insects..

Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To aggravate; to heighten.

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

Detumescence :: Detumescence (n.) Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.

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