A man very concerned about his physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self.
A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.
A dandy roller.
Like a dandy, foppish.
Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be.
Excellent; first-rate.
A person of high social standing; an important person.
A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
The act of swelling; increase in size.
The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
A bulge or protuberance.
A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
To protuberate; to bulge out.
To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
To grow gradually in force or loudness.
To be raised to arrogance.
To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
To cause to become bigger.
Very well.