swelling (sweling)

[ I saw men and women have exceeding great bunches or swellings in their throates. Coryat, Crudities, I. 87. Sometimes they are troubled with dropsies, swellings , aches, and such like diseases. Capt. John Smith , Works, I. 137. 2. A protuberance; a prominence. The superficies of such [thin] plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Newton, Opticks, ii. 2. 6110