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A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue. Emphysema of the lungs, Pulmonary emphysema (Med.), a common disease of the lungs in which the air cells are distended and their partition walls ruptured by an abnormal pressure of the air contained in them.

A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.

A swelling or rising; protuberance. [R.] Moxon.

A swelling or rising. [R.] Cotgrave.

Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.

Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail. Knight.

of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation. A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. Milton.

A bud. From the joints of thy prolific stem A swelling knot is raised called a gem. Denham.

Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon. The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member. Wiseman.

The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow.

acteristic of, a sound formed in the throat. Children are occasionally born with guttural swellings. W. Guthrie. In such a sweet, guttural accent. Landor.

A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin.

Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods. [The sing. hemorrhoid is rarely used.]

the channel through which it has been protruded as to arrest its circulation, and produce swelling of the protruded part. It may occur in recent or chronic hernia, but is more common in the latter.

woodland the | voice of the | huntsman. Longfellow. Strongly it | bears us a- | long on | swelling and | limitless | billows, Nothing be- | fore and | nothing be- | hind but the | sky and the | ocean. Coleridge.

arshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.

A kind of swelling in the cheek.

An umbelliferous plant of the genus Sison (S.Amomum); -- so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone.

vant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms. Housemaid's knee (Med.), a swelling over the knee, due to an enlargement of the bursa in the front of the kneepan; -- so called because frequently occurring in servant girls who work upon their knees.

Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging. Between the incresent and decrescent moon. Tennyson.