Definition of swell

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Swell (n.) A gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound; the crescendo and diminuendo combined; -- generally indicated by the sign.

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Size :: Size (v. t.) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
Estuate :: Estuate (v. i.) To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.
Magniloquent :: Magniloquent (a.) Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.
Heave :: Heave (v. t.) To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom..
Bunt :: Bunt (v. i.) To swell out; as, the sail bunts..
Strut :: Strut (v. t.) To swell; to bulge out.
Blub :: Blub (v. t. & i.) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping..
Spavin :: Spavin (n.) A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself. The resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed..
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount..
Knot :: Knot (n.) A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance..
Intumesce :: Intumesce (v. i.) To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe..
Huff :: Huff (n.) A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.
Ballooned :: Ballooned (a.) Swelled out like a balloon.
Huff :: Huff (n.) A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.
Tumorous :: Tumorous (a.) Swelling; protuberant.
Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used f
Hemorrhoids :: Hemorrhoids (n. pl.) Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods..
Blain :: Blain (n.) An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister..
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..
Rise :: Rise (n.) Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.
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