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Wavy :: Wavy (a.) Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves.

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

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation..

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

Dilate :: Dilate (v. t.) To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat..

Varicosity :: Varicosity (n.) An enlargement or swelling in a vessel, fiber, or the like; a varix; as, the varicosities of nerve fibers..

Chilblain :: Chilblain (n.) A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration..

Boswellian :: Boswellian (a.) Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like..

Pimple :: Pimple (n.) Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.

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

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

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

Turgescent :: Turgescent (a.) Becoming turgid or inflated; swelling; growing big.

Puff :: Puff (n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance..

Emphysematous :: Emphysematous (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, emphysema; swelled; bloated..

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

Anticor :: Anticor (n.) A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart..

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

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

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