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Sweinmote [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. SWE'INMOTE

2. SWELL, verb intransitive preterit tense swelled; participle passive swelled. Swollen is nearly obsolete..

3. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions by matter added to the interior part, or by expansion of the inclosed substance. Thus the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a tumor swells; a bladder swells by inflation.

4. To increase in size or extent by any addition; as, a river swells and overflows its banks.

5. To rise or be driven into waves or billows. In a tempest, the ocean swells into waves mountain high.

6. To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.

7. To be gloated with anger; to be exasperated. He swells with rage.

8. To be inflated; to belly; as swelling sails.

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

10. To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.

11. To be elated; to rise into arrogance.

12. Your equal mind yet swells not into state.

13. To grow more violent; as, a moderate passion may swell to fury.

14. To grow upon the view; to become larger.

15. --And monarachs to be hold the swelling scene.

16. To become larger in amount. Many little debts added, swell to a great amount.

17. To become louder; as, a sound gradually swells as it approaches.

18. To strut; to look big.

19. --Swelling like a turkey cock.

20. To rise in altitude; as, land swells into hills.

Sweinmote [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Extension of bulk.

2. Increase, as sound; as the swell of a note.

3. A gradual ascent or elevation of land; as an extensive plain abounding with little swells.

4. A wave or billow; more generally, a succession of large waves; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor. Swell is also used to denote the waves or fluctuation of the sea after a storm, and the waves that roll in and break upon the shore.

5. In an organ, a certain number of pipes inclosed in a box, which being uncovered, produce a swell of sound.

Sweinmote [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To increase the size, bulk or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate or increase. Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring, and cause floods. Jordan is swelled by the snows of mount Libanus.

2. To aggravate; to highten.

3. It is low ebb with the accuser, when such peccadillos are put to swell the charge.

4. To raise to arrogance; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness.

5. To enlarge. These sums swell the amount of taxes to a fearful size. These victories served to swell the fame of the commander.

6. In music, to augment, as the sound of a note.

Sweinmote [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Swainmote.