TUMID

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh.

2.
a.

Rising above the level; protuberant. So high as heaved the tumid hills. Milton.

3.
a.

Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style. -- Tu"mid*ly, adv. -- Tu"mid*ness, n.

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