Meanings (ES + gloss)
hincharse • inflarse
To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
“If you drinks a drop more, Miss Lucy, you’ll just go like my pore young sister goed, […] Pop she did not. She swole … swole and swole.” “You mean ‘swelled,’ Cookoo,” corrected Luc…
finchar (disused) • hinchar • inflar
To cause to become bigger.
Mildly it [the wind] kist our sailes, and, fresh, and sweet, As, to a stomack sterv’d, whose insides meete, Meate comes, it came; and swole our sailes, when wee So joyd, as Sara’ h…
Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.
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