To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
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A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore.
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To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
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The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.
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To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases.
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To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
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To put together; to construct; to build.
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The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.
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A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of…
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See Hoarding, 2.
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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…
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A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…
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Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease…
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To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlarg…
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Same as Bunyon.
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Alt. of Clue
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A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.
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The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of blood.
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An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
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Same as oedema.
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Same as Goaf.
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A tumor filled with blood.
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The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the a…
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A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.
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A lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal; as, a nugget of gold.
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A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
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The quality or state of being tumid.
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The act of adding; application; accretion.
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The act of adding; application; accretion.
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A short, thick piece of anything.
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A short, thick piece of anything.
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Full of lumps, or small compact masses.
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Full of lumps, or small compact masses.
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Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.
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A short, thick piece of anything.
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A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.
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An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.
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Set; placed.
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A cuckoo.
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A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread.
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To bend; to box; to stoop.
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A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown.
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A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler.
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Originally, an elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins; hence, a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an idiot.
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The quality or state of being puffy.
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of Swell
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