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Tumor :: Tumor (n.) Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.

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

Knot :: Knot (n.) A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance..

Turgid :: Turgid (a.) Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking..

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

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..

Swelling :: Swelling (n.) The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride..

Filipendulous :: Filipendulous (a.) Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets..

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

Strumatic :: Struma (n.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses..

Cruels :: Cruels (n. pl.) Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.

Bigly :: Bigly (a.) In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently..

Ventricous :: Ventricous (a.) Swelling out on one side or unequally; bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla..

Nodosity :: Nodosity (n.) The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness.

Hematoma :: Hematoma (n.) A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin.

Beat :: Beat (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8..

Quinsy :: Quinsy (n.) An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey..

Throstling :: Throstling (n.) A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation..

Outswell :: Outswell (v. t.) To exceed in swelling.

Swell :: Swelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swel.

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