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Distention :: Distention (n.) Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended.

Full-blown :: Full-blown (a.) Fully distended with wind, as a sail..

Wind :: Wind (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing..

Distent :: Distent (a.) Distended.

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

Globefish :: Globefish (n.) A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon..

Distend :: Distend (v. t.) To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch.

Distensive :: Distensive (a.) Distending, or capable of being distended..

Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle..

Plumper :: Plumper (n.) One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks..

Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc..

Ventriculous :: Ventriculous (a.) Somewhat distended in the middle; ventricular.

Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp..

Distensible :: Distensible (a.) Capable of being distended or dilated.

Balloon Fish :: Balloon fish () A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish..

Distention :: Distention (n.) The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs..

Intend :: Intend (v. t.) To stretch' to extend; to distend.

Fyke :: Fyke (n.) A long bag net distended by hoops, into which fish can pass easily, without being able to return; -- called also fyke net..

Distended :: Distended (imp. & p. p.) of Disten.

Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas..

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