Hypertext Webster Gateway: "intumesce"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Intumesce \In`tu*mesce"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Intumesced}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Intumescing}.] [L. intumescere; pref. in- in +
tumescere to swell up, incho. fr. tumere to swell. See
{Tumid}.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
intumesce
v 1: move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also
used metaphorically; "Gases bubbled up from the earth";
"Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin
America" [syn: {bubble up}]
2: expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are
swelling" [syn: {swell}, {swell up}, {tumefy}]
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