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Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh.

The quality or state of being tumid.

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

The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel.

Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history. Walpole.

The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat. The intumescence of nations. Johnson.

Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent. -- Mag*nil"o*quent*ly, adv.

Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor. " A very stout, puffy man." Thackeray.

A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid. Dunglison.

y head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this ma…

The act of becoming tumid; the state of being swollen; intumescence.

Slightly tumid; swollen, as certain moss capsules.

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

ral state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid. Boyle.