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swelling

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?sw?l.??/
  • Rhymes: -?l??

Noun

swelling (countable and uncountable, plural swellings)

  1. The state of being swollen.
  2. Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.
  3. (figuratively) A rising, as of passion or anger.

Translations

Verb

swelling

  1. present participle of swell

See also

  • edema

Anagrams

  • Wellings, wellings

Middle English

Noun

swelling

  1. Alternative form of swellynge

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mound

English

Etymology

From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart), from Old English mund (hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship), from Proto-Germanic *mund? (hand), *munduz (protection, patron), from Proto-Indo-European *mh?-nt-éh? (the beckoning one), from *men-, *man-, *mar- (hand). Cognate with Old Frisian mund (guardianship), Old High German munt (hand, protection) (German Mündel (ward), Vormund (a guardian)), Old Norse mund (hand) (Icelandic mund), Middle Dutch mond (protection), Latin manus (hand), Ancient Greek ???? (már?, hand).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma?nd/
  • Rhymes: -a?nd

Noun

mound (plural mounds)

  1. An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
    Synonyms: bulwark, rampart
  2. A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
  3. (baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
  4. 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.
  5. (US, vulgar, slang) The mons veneris.
  6. (obsolete, anatomy, measurement, figuratively) A hand.
  7. (obsolete) A protection; restraint; curb.
  8. (obsolete) A helmet.
  9. (obsolete) Might; size.

Synonyms

  • (part of regalia): globus cruciger, globe, orb

Derived terms

  • shaftmound

Translations

Verb

mound (third-person singular simple present mounds, present participle mounding, simple past and past participle mounded)

  1. (transitive) To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
  2. (transitive) To force or pile into a mound or mounds.

Synonyms

  • (fortify with a mound): bank, bank up, bulwark, rampart
  • (pile into mounds): heap up, pile; see also Thesaurus:pile up

Derived terms

  • amound

Translations

See also

  • mound on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Mound in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

  • Mudon, Mundo

Middle English

Noun

mound

  1. Alternative form of mund

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