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And stuffed her apron wide with nuts so brown. Gay. Lest the gods, for sin, Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin. Dryden.

An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid. [Written also stye.]

To become choked, stifled, or smothered. "A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage." collier.

his majesty through a suite of rooms till they came to a private door into the library. Boswell.

ce, whether in fair or cloudy weather; as, to begin work at sunrise. "The tide of sunrise swells." Keble.

The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach. Surf bird (Zoöl.), a ploverlike bird of the genus Aphriza, allied to the turnstone. -- Surf clam (Zoöl.), a large clam living on the open coast, especially Mactra, or Spisula, solidissima. See Mactra. -- Surf duck (Zoöl.), any one of several…

A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind. He that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. James i. 6 (Rev. Ver.) He flies aloft, and, with impetuous roar, Pursues the foaming surges to the shore. Dryden.

Rising; swelling, as a flood. [R.] Robert Greene.

Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling. "Over the surgy main." Pope.

Done by stitching. [R.] Boswell.

Swelled. Chaucer.

imp. of Swell.

To be overflowed or drenched. Ps. vi. 6. Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim. Thomson.

p. p. of Swell.

e secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through.

A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation.

An effort; a violent sally. [Obs.] Your youth admires The throws and swellings of a Roman soul. Addison.

by the flow of the tide; hence, broadly, the seaboard. -- Tide wave, or Tidal wave, the swell of water as the tide moves. That of the ocean is called primitive; that of bays or channels derivative. Whewell. -- Tide wheel, a water wheel so constructed as to be moved by the ebb or flow of the tide.

A swellfish.

A fop; a beau; a swell. [Slang, Eng.] Kipling.