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A Swell

  1. The act of swelling; increase in size.
  2. A bulge or protuberance.
  3. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
  4. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
  5. (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
  6. (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
  7. (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
  8. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
  9. (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
  10. (informal, dated) A person who dresses in a fancy or elegant manner.
  11. (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
  12. The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.Synonyms: pommel, fork
Synonyms

(person dressed in a fancy or elegant manner): dandy, dude, toff

(person of high social standing): toff