Swell: alternatives and connections

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Acquitted; set free; rid of.

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That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…

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To support or sustain; to hold up.

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To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.

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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.

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The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, i…

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To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.

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To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the ele…

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To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.

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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…

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To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

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A human being; -- opposed tobeast.

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To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.

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To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

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To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

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See Waive.

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That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.

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A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fl…

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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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The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.

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Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.

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To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch.

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A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.

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To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up.

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To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister.

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See Coxcomb.

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A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.

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Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.

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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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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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To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.

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To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up.

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A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy.

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A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.

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A frame to hang clothes on.

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of Cork

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of Crack

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One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.

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A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations.

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One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.

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Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.

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Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, lengt…

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To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.

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Sharp; having a fine edge or point; as, a keen razor, or a razor with a keen edge.

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Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot.

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Open country.

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Resembling a peach or peaches.

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The head of an Arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also, the chief magistrate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiast…

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of Smash

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To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up.

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An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain.

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