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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..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be elated; to rise arrogantly.

Bag :: Bag (v. i.) To swell with arrogance.

Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style..

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

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

Jug :: "Jug (n.) A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side..

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

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..

Swollen :: Swelled (p. p.) of Swel.

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

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..

Farce :: Farce (v. t.) To swell out; to render pompous.

Aposteme :: Aposteme (n.) An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter.

Pod :: Pod (v. i.) To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods..

Windgall :: Windgall (n.) A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.

Bubonocele :: Bubonocele (n.) An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo..

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

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

Blub :: Blub (v. t. & i.) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping..

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