v (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
v (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
v (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
v (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
v (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
v (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
v To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
v To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
v To protuberate; to bulge out.
n The act of swelling; increase in size.
n A bulge or protuberance.
n Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
n A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
n (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
n (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
n (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
n A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
n (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
n (informal, dated) A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.
n (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
n The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
adj (dated) Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
adj (Canada, US, dated slang) Excellent.
adv (Canada, US, informal) Very well.