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mensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.

People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively. [Jocose]

Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.

The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride. Rise to the swelling of the voiceless sea. Coleridge.

Dandified; stylish. [Slang]

A swellfish.

Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.

The style of Boswell.

Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.

Inflated; boastful.

To exceed in swelling.

To swell or rise above; to overflow. [R.] Shak.

To sink from a swollen state; to subside. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To swell or rise up.

Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling. Kirby. Ampullaceous sac (Zoöl.), one of the peculiar cavities in the tissues of sponges, containing the zooidal cells.

ue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow. [Obs.] Boucher.

A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.

To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus. Wiseman.

An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter. [Written corruptly imposthume.]