Word Meanings - APOSTEMATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus. Wiseman.

SWELLTOAD
A swellfish.
ABSCESS
A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years
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
ABSCESSION
A separating; removal; also, an abscess. Gauden. Barrough.
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;
SWELLISH
Dandified; stylish.
SWELLFISH
Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
UPSWELL
To swell or rise up.
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.
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.
OVERSWELL
To swell or rise above; to overflow. Shak.