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

Turgesce :: Turgesce (v. i.) To become turgid; to swell or be inflated.

Upswell :: Upswell (v. i.) To swell or rise up.

Turgid :: Turgid (a.) Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit..

Boss :: Boss (n.) Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood..

Tortulous :: Tortulous (a.) Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.

Inflate :: Inflate (v. t.) Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity..

Strout :: Strout (v. i.) To swell; to puff out; to project.

Beal :: Beal (v. i.) To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple..

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..

Fish-bellied :: Fish-bellied (a.) Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail..

Sea-gait :: Sea-gait (n.) A long, rolling swell of the sea..

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

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

Billowy :: Billowy (a.) Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.

Emphysema :: Emphysema (n.) A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue.

Gourdy :: Gourdy (a.) Swelled in the legs.

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

Heaving :: Heaving (n.) A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing.

Entasis :: Entasis (n.) A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.

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