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

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

Becoming turgid or inflated; swelling; growing big.

Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking. -- Tur"gid*ly, adv. -- Tur"gid*ness, n.

Shaped like a pitcher or urn; swelling below, and contrasted at the orifice, as a calyx or corolla.

A morbid swelling of the scrotum due to extravasation of urine into it.

An enlargement or swelling in a vessel, fiber, or the like; a varix; as, the varicosities of nerve fibers.

Swelling out on one side or unequally; bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla. Ventricose shell. (Zoöl.) (a) A spiral shell having the body whorls rounded or swollen in the middle. (b) A bivalve shell in which the valves are strongly convex.

A soft swelling on a horse's leg; a windgall.

loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding. Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. Coleridge.

Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil. So glides some trodden serpent on the grass, And long behind wounded volume trails. Dryden. Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes. W. Irving.

Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm. Wave front (Physics), the surface of initial displacement of the particles in a medium, as a wave of vibration advances. -- Wave length (Physics), the space, reckoned in the direction of propagation, occupied by a complete…

Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves. "The wavy seas." Chapman.

l.) (a) The common sucker. (b) The common red horse (Moxostoma macrolepidotum). -- White swelling (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee, produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also to a linger…

A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.

Tumor; puffiness. The swelling windiness of much knowledge. Brerewood.