Word Meanings - OVERSWELL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To swell or rise above; to overflow. Shak.
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- OVERFLOWINGLY
In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle. - OVERFLOWING
An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay. - SWELLTOAD
A swellfish. - ABOVEBOARD
Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands - ABOVESAID
Mentioned or recited before. - ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
Mentioned or named before; aforesaid. - OVERFLOW
1. To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm. The northern nations overflowed all Christendom. Spenser. 2. To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full. - 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. - ABOVEDECK
On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart. - 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. - ABOVE-CITED
Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing. - ABOVE
1. In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20. 2. Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in - 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.