SWELLING
\swˈɛlɪŋ], \swˈɛlɪŋ], \s_w_ˈɛ_l_ɪ_ŋ]\
Definitions of SWELLING
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride.
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A protuberance; a prominence
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an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling.
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The act of expanding, or increasing in bulk, etc.; state of being so increased; a boil or any enlarged sore part of the body.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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(B.) Inflated, proud, haughty.
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Protuberance: a tumor: a rising, as of passion: (B.) inflation by pride.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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