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Word Meanings - INFARCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To stuff; to swell. The body is infarced with . . . watery humors. Sir T. Elyot.

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  • SWELLTOAD
    A swellfish.
  • STUFFING
    Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing. 3. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint
  • INFARCT
    An obstruction or embolus. The morbid condition of a limited area resulting from such obstruction; as, a hemorrhagic infarct.
  • HUMORSOMENESS
    Quality of being humorsome.
  • HUMORSOMELY
    Pleasantly; humorously.
  • WATERY
    1. Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water. "The watery god." Dryden. "Fish within their watery residence." Milton. 2. Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful. 3. Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors. The
  • 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
  • STUFFINESS
    The quality of being stuffy.
  • SWELLDOM
    People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
  • INFARCTION
    The act of stuffing or filling; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation.
  • STUFFER
    One who, or that which, stuffs.
  • INFARCE
    To stuff; to swell. The body is infarced with . . . watery humors. Sir T. Elyot.
  • 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;
  • STUFFY
    1. Stout; mettlesome; resolute. Jamieson. 2. Angry and obstinate; sulky. 3. Ill-ventilated; close.
  • STUFF
    A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. Ham. Nav. Encyc. 8. Paper stock ground ready for use. Note: When partly ground, called half stuff. Knight. Clear stuff. See
  • SWELLISH
    Dandified; stylish.
  • SWELLFISH
    Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
  • HUMORSOME
    1. Moody; whimsical; capricious. Hawthorne. The commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms. Burke. 2. Jocose; witty; humorous. Swift.
  • 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.
  • BREADSTUFF
    Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
  • BOSWELLISM
    The style of Boswell.
  • DYESTUFF
    A material used for dyeing.
  • HIGH-SWELLING
    Inflated; boastful.
  • SPLIT STUFF
    Timber sawn into lengths and then split.

 

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