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To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression. What different sorrows did within thee roll. Prior.

y, to cease growing; to lose vital force, as the body or mind. -- To run up, to rise; to swell; to grow; to increase; as, accounts of goods credited run up very fast. But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees. Sir W. Scott. -- To run with. (a) To be drenched w…

by together or up; as, to scrape money together. The prelatical party complained that, to swell a number the nonconformists did not choose, but scrape, subscribers. Fuller.

The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea.

A long, rolling swell of the sea. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

he bore hole. It consists of a bag encircling the tubing and filled with flax seed, which swells when wet and fills the space between the tubing and the sides of the hole. -- Seed bud (Bot.), the germ or rudiment of the plant in the embryo state; the ovule. -- Seed coat (Bot.), the covering of a seed. -- Seed corn,…

The office, rank, or condition of a servitor. Boswell.

g, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes.

e Diptera. It fixes its proboscis in the skin of the sheep and sucks the blood, leaving a swelling. Called also sheep pest, and sheep louse. -- Sheep walk, a pasture for sheep; a sheep run. -- Wild sheep. (Zoöl.) See Argali, Mouflon, and Oörial.

To swell; to increase the bulk of. Beau. & Fl.

An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus Ustilago. Ustilago segetum, or U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis.

hing must be done somehow; he lives somehow. By their action upon one another they may be swelled somehow, so as to shorten the length. Cheyne.

A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself. The resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed. Harbaugh. Bog spavin, a soft swelling produced by distention of the capsular…

is cleft at its lower portion, and the membranes of the spinal cord project as an elastic swelling from the gap thus formed.

nd swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.

A swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it.

To swell out; to strut. [Obs.] Chapman.

To swell; to puff out; to project. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.

To swell; to bulge out. [R.] The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. Dryden.