Word Meanings - INFARCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To stuff; to swell. The body is infarced with . . . watery humors. Sir T. Elyot.

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• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• STUFFING
  Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing. 3. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint
• INFARCT
  An obstruction or embolus. The morbid condition of a limited area resulting from such obstruction; as, a hemorrhagic infarct.
• HUMORSOMENESS
  Quality of being humorsome.
• HUMORSOMELY
  Pleasantly; humorously.
• WATERY
  1. Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water. "The watery god." Dryden. "Fish within their watery residence." Milton. 2. Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful. 3. Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors. The
• SWELL
  1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in
• STUFFINESS
  The quality of being stuffy.
• SWELLDOM
  People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
• INFARCTION
  The act of stuffing or filling; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation.
• STUFFER
  One who, or that which, stuffs.
• INFARCE
  To stuff; to swell. The body is infarced with . . . watery humors. Sir T. Elyot.
• SWELLING
  an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton. (more info) 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring;
• STUFFY
  1. Stout; mettlesome; resolute. Jamieson. 2. Angry and obstinate; sulky. 3. Ill-ventilated; close.
• STUFF
  A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. Ham. Nav. Encyc. 8. Paper stock ground ready for use. Note: When partly ground, called half stuff. Knight. Clear stuff. See
• SWELLISH
  Dandified; stylish.
• SWELLFISH
  Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
• HUMORSOME
  1. Moody; whimsical; capricious. Hawthorne. The commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms. Burke. 2. Jocose; witty; humorous. Swift.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• UNSWELL
  To sink from a swollen state; to subside. Chaucer.
• HEARTSWELLING
  Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
• BREADSTUFF
  Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
• BOSWELLISM
  The style of Boswell.
• DYESTUFF
  A material used for dyeing.
• HIGH-SWELLING
  Inflated; boastful.
• SPLIT STUFF
  Timber sawn into lengths and then split.