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 I.  verb (swelled; swelled or swollen; swelling) 
 Etymology: Middle English, from Old English swellan; akin to Old High German swellan to swell Date: before 12th century intransitive  verb 
 
 1. to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit , to become distended or puffed up , to form a bulge or rounded elevation, 
 
 2. to become filled with pride and arrogance, to behave or speak in a pompous, blustering, or self-important manner, to play the swell, to become distended with emotion, transitive  verb to affect with a powerful or expansive emotion, to increase the size, number, or intensity of , see:  expand  
 
 II.  noun 
 Date: 1606
 a long often massive and crestless wave or succession of waves often continuing beyond or after its cause (as a gale), 
 
 2. the condition of being protuberant, a rounded elevation, 
 
 3. the act or process of swelling, b. a gradual increase and decrease of the loudness of a musical sound, a device used in an organ for governing loudness, 
 
 4. an impressive, pompous, or fashionable air or display, a person dressed in the height of fashion, a person of high social position or outstanding competence, 
 
 III.  adjective 
 Date: 1785
 
 
 1.  stylish  , socially prominent,  excellent  

 swell box 
  noun 
 Date: circa 1801
 a chamber in an organ containing a set of pipes and having shutters that open or shut to regulate the volume of tone