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r cooked or uncooked. Tomato gall (Zoöl.), a large gall consisting of a mass of irregular swellings on the stems and leaves of grapevines. They are yellowish green, somewhat tinged with red, and produced by the larva of a small two-winged fly (Lasioptera vitis). -- Tomato sphinx (Zoöl.), the adult or imago of the toma…

Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.

Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.

heels now, and they all run away. Beau. &Fl. Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell. Drayton.

rd whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth.

ement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture. With transport views the airy rule his own, And swells on an imaginary throne. Pope. Say not, in transports of despair, That all your hopes are fled. Doddridge.

n needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism. Trifling truisms clothed in great, swelling words. J. P. Smith.

land now is left To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth The unowed interest of proud-swelling state. Shak.

Producing swelling; tumefying.

The act or process of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumor; a swelling. Arbuthnot.

To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up. To swell, tumefy, stiffen, not the diction only, but the tenor of the thought. De Quincey.

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

A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm.

Distended; swelled. [R.] "His tumored breast." R. Junius.

Swelling; protuberant. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

To swell. [Obs.] Wilkins.

Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors.

To become turgid; to swell or be inflated. [R.]

The act of swelling, or the state of being swollen, or turgescent. Sir T. Browne.

Becoming turgid or inflated; swelling; growing big.