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Blain :: Blain (n.) An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister..

Jointworm :: "Jointworm (n.) The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop..

Swellish :: Swelling (n.) an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling..

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

Wave :: Wave (v. i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation..

Volume :: Volume (n.) Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.

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

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

Strangulate :: Strangles (n.) A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells..

Wave :: Wave (v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm..

Blister :: Blister (n.) Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel..

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

Swell :: Swell (n.) The act of swelling.

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

Surgeon :: Surgent (a.) Rising; swelling, as a flood..

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..

Tumored :: Tumored (a.) Distended; swelled.

Rise :: Rise (v.) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like..

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

Knob :: Knob (n.) A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone..

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