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Intumesce [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. intumes'. [Latin intumesco; in and tumeo, to swell.]

2. To swell; to enlarge or expand with heat.

3. In a higher heat it intumesces and melts into a yellowish black mass.

Intumesce [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.

Intumesced [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Intumescence [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The action of swelling.

2. A swell; a swelling with bubbles; a rising and enlarging; a tumid state.

Intumescence [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor.

Intumescent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Swelling up; expanding.