Swell

swel, v.i. to grow larger: to expand: to rise into waves: to heave: to be inflated: to bulge out: to grow louder: to be bombastic, to strut: to become elated, arrogant, or angry: to grow upon the view: to grow more violent: to grow louder, as a note.— v.t. to increase the size of: to aggravate: to increase the sound of: to raise to arrogance: to augment the sound of:— pa.p. swelled or swollen (swōln).— n. act of swelling: a bulge or protuberance: increase in size: an increase and a succeeding decrease in the volume of a tone: a gradual rise of ground: a wave or billow or succe ion of them in one direction, as after a storm: a distinct set of pipes in an organ, enclosed in a case furnished with movable shutters which being more or le opened by means of a pedal, produce a swell of sound: ( geol. ) an upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle: a strutting foppish fellow, a dandy.— adj. fashionable.— n. Swell′dom , the fashionable world generally.— adj. Swell′ing ( B. ), inflated, proud, haughty.— n. protuberance: a tumour: a rising, as of pa ion: ( B. ) inflation by pride.— adj. Swell′ish , foppish, dandified.— ns. Swell′-mob , well-dre ed pickpockets collectively; Swell′-mobs′man , a well-dre ed pickpocket. [A.S. swell an ; Ger. schwellen .]