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Curb :: Curb (n.) A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness..

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

Bombastry :: Bombastry (n.) Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.

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

Thoroughpin :: Thoroughpin (n.) A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through..

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

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

Vessignon :: Vessignon (n.) A soft swelling on a horse's leg; a windgall.

Lampas :: Lampas (n.) An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse; -- called also lampers.

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

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

High-swelling :: High-swelling (a.) Inflated; boastful.

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..

Hone :: Hone (n.) A kind of swelling in the cheek.

Crest :: Crest (n.) A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc..

Increscent :: Increscent (a.) Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging.

Ampullaceous :: Ampullaceous (a.) Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling.

Extuberance :: Extuberance (n.) A swelling or rising; protuberance.

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

Strany :: Strangury (n.) A swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it..

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