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Word Meanings - SWELLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton. (more info) 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring;

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an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton. (more info) 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride. Rise to the swelling of the voiceless sea. Coleridge. 2. A protuberance; a prominence; especially ,

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  • INTUMESCENCE
    1. The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat. The intumescence of nations. Johnson. 2. Anything swollen or enlarged,
  • PROTUBERANCE
    That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. Solar protuberances , certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which
  • SWELLTOAD
    A swellfish.
  • TURGESCENCE; TURGESCENCY
    1. The act of swelling, or the state of being swollen, or turgescent. Sir T. Browne. 2. Empty magnificence or pompousness; inflation; bombast; turgidity. Johnson.
  • SWELL
    1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in
  • SWELLDOM
    People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
  • SWELLING
    an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton. (more info) 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring;
  • CONVEXITY
    The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness. A smooth, uniform convexity and rotundity of a globe. Bentley.
  • SWELLISH
    Dandified; stylish.
  • EXCRESCENCE
    An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant. "Excrescences
  • SWELLFISH
    Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
  • UPSWELL
    To swell or rise up.
  • INTURGESCENCE
    A swelling; the act of swelling, or state of being swelled. Sir T. Browne.
  • UNSWELL
    To sink from a swollen state; to subside. Chaucer.
  • HEARTSWELLING
    Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
  • BOSWELLISM
    The style of Boswell.
  • HIGH-SWELLING
    Inflated; boastful.
  • SUPEREXCRESCENCE
    Something growing superfluously.
  • OUTSWELL
    1. To exceed in swelling. 2. To swell beyond; to overflow. Hewyt.
  • BOSWELLIAN
    Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.

 

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