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Wool. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. [Written also barbel and barble.]

A bird of the family Bucconidæ, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.

To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.

Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.

nded beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.

Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.

Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. Spenser.

Swollen; protuberant.

Swollen; puffed out. Thin, and boln out like a sail. B. Jonson.

Swollen. [Obs.]

Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen. [R.] Cudworth.

The old plural of Eye. And eke with fatness swollen were his een. Spenser.

Swollen; protuberant. [Obs.] "An embossed carbuncle." Shak.

Made large or larger; extended; swollen. -- En*lar"ged*ly, adv. -- En*lar"ged*ness, n.

The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue.

Swollen out; protuberant. [R.] "Extuberant lips." Gayton.

To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.

Swollen, as if from gout. Derham.