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A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.

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.

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.

To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style.

Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.

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.

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.

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.

Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style. -- Tu"mid*ly, adv. -- Tu"mid*ness, n.

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

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