Swollen; inflated, puffed up.

Physically swollen; = bollen, adj.

Increased in bulk, as by internal pressure; distended, filled out; esp. morbidly enlarged, affected with tumour; also, of a distended form…

Extremely or excessively great or large. Of material things: distended, swollen, fat; overfed. Also in figurative context. Obsolete.

puffed up.

Resembling a puff (in various senses); puffed, inflated, swollen, swelling (literal and figurative). Now chiefly of cereal grains: = puffed, adj. 2c.

? Puffed up, tumid. Obsolete. rare.

Of a joint: swollen, protuberant. Also: having such a joint or joints. knule-kneed: having enlarged or protuberant knee-joints, knock-kneed.

In physical sense: inflated, blown-up; distended by inflation; filled out with or as with air. More generally: swollen or distended in any way…

Swollen.

Characterized by tumour or swelling; swollen, protuberant, bulging, tumid. Obsolete except as in 1b.

attributive and in other combinations, as bladder chops; bladder-less, bladder-like, bladder-puffed, adjs.

Swollen, bloated, puffed out; esp. applied to cattle when swollen with over-feeding: cf. hoove, n. Also figurative and as n.

Swollen, inflated, gibbous; figurative swollen with pride, puffed up.

In various senses of the verb: e.g. Thickened, swollen (obsolete).

Lifted, swollen, etc.

That is or seems to be puffed up or inflated; swollen, distended, esp. unusually or unnaturally so; having a tendency to swell or puff up…

In senses of swell, v., literal and figurative; esp. in sense ‘morbidly enlarged, affected with tumour’.

Swollen, bulky.

= inflated, adj. (Usually construed as past participle.)

Swollen as with a tympany; usually figurative inflated, puffed up; turgid, bombastic; hollow, empty, vain.

Swollen; characterized by swelling. Of a swollen or protuberant form; swelling, bulging; in quot. 1659, swollen or puffed out with the wind. In…

affected with tumour or swelling, swollen (literal and figurative): const. as adj. or past participle.

Caused to swell, swollen. (Construed as past participle or participial adjective) generally. rare.

Of the body, face, etc.: Swollen, puffed up, turgid; esp. as describing the effect of gluttony and self-indulgence.

Puffed up, swollen; soft, spongy. Also figurative. Now chiefly in pluff mud n. U.S. regional (chiefly South Carolina) a type of soft, silty mud…

Swollen, expanded, or dilated with hollow interior, as if by inflation.

(a) adv. in the manner of a balloon; (b) adj. resembling or like a balloon; inflated, swollen, puffed-up.

Of the nature of a bladder; thin and inflated; inflated and hollow. literal and figurative.

Rounded, swollen, or puffed out like a balloon.

(See quots.)

Resembling ‘pobs’ in consistency; soft, pulpy; bloated, swollen.