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

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

Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle..

Filipendulous :: Filipendulous (a.) Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets..

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

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

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

Bump :: Bump (n.) A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance..

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

Swellfish :: Swelldom (n.) People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively..

Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population..

Spinaceous :: Spina bifida () A congenital malformation in which the spinal column is cleft at its lower portion, and the membranes of the spinal cord project as an elastic swelling from the gap thus formed..

Node :: Node (n.) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint..

Strove :: Strout (v. t.) To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.

Kohl-rabi :: Kohl-rabi (n.) A variety of cabbage, in which the edible part is a large, turnip-shaped swelling of the stem, above the surface of the ground..

Surge :: Surge (v. i.) To swell; to rise hifg and roll.

Bunt :: Bunt (v. i.) To swell out; as, the sail bunts..

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

Estuate :: Estuate (v. i.) To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.

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

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