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swelling
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swell \Swell\, v. i. [imp. Swelled ; p. p. Swelled or Swollen ; p. pr. & vb. n. Swelling .] [AS. swellan; akin to D. zwellen, OS. & OHG. swellan, G. schwellen, Icel. svella, Sw. sv["a]lla.] To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. becoming puffy as from internal bleeding or accumulation of other fluids; "put ice on the swelling ankle" n. abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement [syn: puffiness , lump ] the swelling of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"tumor, morbid enlargement," Old English; verbal noun from swell (v.).
Usage examples of swelling.
And anthrax could be distinguished by the characteristic X ray showing a swelling of the lymph nodes between the lungs, in the part of the chest known as the mediastinum.
Her ballet slippers had grown too tight for her swelling feet, and at long last Jenny Angustri appeared to have the perfect high instep that every ballerina ought to have.
She gazed at him with new approval when she stopped, the lush, responsive tissues of her dark face turning darker still and blooming somnolently with a swelling and beautifying infusion of blood.
His eyes, sapphire blue beneath a square-cut black mane, were on the olive-skinned woman across the small room, who was adjusting the gilded brass breastplates that displayed rather than concealed her swelling bilobate chest.
The stone was the statue of a woman, a Venus grosser than Mrs Blatter, her belly swelling with children, tits like mountains, cunt a valley that began at her navel and gaped to the world.
The Sacred Name blossomed like a rose within me, swelling to fill every part, until there was no room left for any trace of fear.
Mockdirad lunged to their feet, shoulders bristling, bare chests swelling.
Shewing their strong members, their swelling muskels standing out, offering to the sight and eyes of tbe behoulder, the dutie of theyr bones, and the hollownesse in the places, where theyr strong sinewes be strayned.
It looked good: no swelling, no necrosis, no gap between the baboon and the microchip.
She pitched on a little Sicilian pastorale that the herdsmen play on their pipes coming down from the hills, softly, from very far, rising, rising, swelling to full cadence, and failing, failing away again to nothing.
Some distance behind him stumbled Marit, clutching his shoulder, and Perd, with a swelling jaw.
America, and of the wilderness, and it haunted them like legends, and pierced them like a sword, and filled them with a wild and swelling prescience of joy that was like sorrow and delight.
Generalised fevers, for example, were caused by putrefying humours throughout the body, producing heat, whereas localised illnesses stemmed from toxic humours in individual organs, leading to swelling, or hardening, or pain.
The skin passed naturally over the chest from one side to another, but was raised at one part of the groove by a pulsatile swelling which occupied the position of the right auricle.
Between the clavicles another pulsatile swelling was easily felt but hardly seen, which was doubtless the arch of the aorta, as by putting the fingers on it one could feel a double shock, synchronous with distention and recoil of a vessel or opening and closing of the semilunar valves.