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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Intumesced

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Intumescing

[L.

intumescere

; pref.

in-

in +

tumescere

to swell up, incho. fr.

tumere

to swell. See

To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.

In a higher heat, it

intumesces

, and melts into a yellowish black mass.

Kirwan.

Verb.

intumes'. [L. intumesco; in and tumeo, to swell.]

To swell; to enlarge or expand with heat.

In a higher heat it intumesces and melts into a yellowish black mass.