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n. - The swelling of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water); Swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion).

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Usage examples (6)
  • Stilbite is characterized by its form, difficult gelatinizing, and intumescence before the blowpipe; from natrolite as mentioned under that species.
  • For our present purpose hypertrophy may be considered as it affects the axile or the foliar organs, and also according to the way in which the increased size is manifested, as...
  • Here, an intumescence which was to become a mountain, there, an abyss which was to be filled with an ocean or a sea.
  • If in one of these points the barometer stands a few lines lower than in the other, the water will rise where it finds the least pressure of air, and this local...
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