Noun

(en noun)

The state of being swollen.

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, year= a1420 , year_published= 1894 , author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056 , by= (Lanfranc of Milan) , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63 , original= , chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone , section= , isbn= 1163911380 , edition= , publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co , location= London , editor= Robert von Fleischhacker , volume= , page= 63 , passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge ; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra. }}

Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete, anatomy, measurement, figuratively) A hand.

(obsolete) A protection; restraint; curb.

(obsolete) A helmet.

(obsolete) Might; size.

An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart.

A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.

(baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.

A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross.

(US, vulgar, slang) The mons veneris.