swell

  • 41swell — Ocean waves that have traveled out of their fetch. Swell characteristically exhibits a more regular and longer period and has flatter crests than waves within their fetch …

    Military dictionary

  • 42swell —    (not recommended)    refer to swell and swale topography …

    Glossary of landform and geologic terms

  • 43swell — adj Excellent, outstanding. Thanks for helping out, Eula, you re really swell. 1920s …

    Historical dictionary of American slang

  • 44swell up — see swell 2) …

    English dictionary

  • 45swell — great, wonderful, (often used sarcastically)    How was your vacation? Oh swell. It rained every day …

    English idioms

  • 46swell —    to be pregnant    Of obvious imagery, and not used of male or female obesity:     Unless it swell past hiding, and then it s past watching. (Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida) …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 47swell — I. v. n. 1. Dilate, expand, tumefy, distend, fill out, intumesce, grow larger or bigger (by expansion). 2. Increase (by outward addition), augment, enlarge. 3. Rise (as waves), heave, surge. 4. Belly, be inflated. 5. Strut, look big, put on airs …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 48swell — 1. verb 1) her lip swelled up Syn: expand, bulge, distend, inflate, dilate, bloat, puff up, balloon, fatten, fill out 2) the population swelled Syn: grow …

    Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • 49swell — jūrų bangavimas statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Jūrų ar vandenynų paviršinio vandens sluoksnio svyravimas, atsirandantis dėl vėjo, Mėnulio ir saulės traukos jėgų, atmosferos slėgio svyravimo, žemės drebėjimų, dugno… …

    Ekologijos terminų aiškinamasis žodynas

  • 50swell — To enlarge or increase. In an action of tort, circumstances of aggravation may swell the damages Swift v. Tyson Case. An early case decided in 1842 by the U.S. Supreme Court, 41 (16 Pet.) U.S. 1, 10 L.Ed. 865, which held that federal courts in… …

    Black's law dictionary