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o decide, or determine generally. South. There shall your swords and lances arbitrate The swelling difference of your settled hate. Shak.

ranged his men in the streets. Berners. [They] were beginning to arrange their hampers. Boswell. A mechanism previously arranged. Paley.

Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner. [Archaic] Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. Cowper.

To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reëforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil. But their spite still serves His glory to augment. Milton.

To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.

The act of swelling; swelling.

Swelled out like a balloon.

To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple. [Prov. Eng.]

A sudden swelling or reënforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in un…

To cause to swell out; to fill. [R.] Your breath of full consent bellied his sails. Shak.

Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. [Obs.] Shak.

Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively. [Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome. Addison.

In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently. He brawleth bigly. Robynson (More's Utopia. )

Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.

To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister. Blotches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

tion of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle. And painful blisters swelled my tender hands. Grainger.

To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.

To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass.

To swell; to puff out, as with weeping. [Obs.]