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To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs. When passion's tumults in the bosom rise, Inflate the features, and enrage the eyes. J. Scott of Amwell.

Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas.

, or a gentle, persistent movement. The water easily insinuates itself into, and placidly distends, the vessels of vegetables. Woodward.

To stretch' to extend; to distend. [Obs.] By this the lungs are intended or remitted. Sir M. Hale.

that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks.

to Clotho and allied genera. They are exceedingly venomous, and have the power of greatly distending their bodies when irritated. The common puff adder (Vipera, or Clotho, arietans) is the largest species, becoming over four feet long. The plumed puff adder (C. cornuta) has a plumelike appendage over each eye. (b) A No…

To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly. The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain. Shak.

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

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

Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid. Boyle.

Somewhat distended in the middle; ventricular.

mn. -- Vesicular emphysema (Med.), emphysema of the lungs, in which the air vesicles are distended and their walls ruptured. -- Vesicular murmur (Med.), the sound, audible on auscultation of the chest, made by the air entering and leaving the air vesicles of the lungs in respiration.

A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.