tumid

• Nodes are tumid, purplish, covered with long hairs The leaf-blade is flat but convolute when young, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, base rounded and margin with minute serrations. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• Earth was once more tumid, about to bring forth. —  The Hill A Romance of Friendship
• When seen on the third day, the lower part of the abdomen was motionless, tumid, and tender The bowels had been confined for three days; there had been no sickness, and the tongue was moist and clean. —  Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
• For the phraseology, tumid or not, has always something within it_. —  Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
• It was talk,--tumid talk--high-swelling words, nothing more Heard Mr. Allen preach on the Flood. —  Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story

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