Word Meanings - INTUMESCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Swelling up; expanding.

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• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• EXPANDER
  Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
• 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;
• EXPAND
  To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5. (more info) 1. To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.
• SWELLISH
  Dandified; stylish.
• EXPANDING
  That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging. Expanding bit, Expanding drill , a bit or drill made adjustable for holes of various sizes; one which can be expanded in diameter while boring. -- Expanding pulley , a pulley so
• 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.