geswel

• ġeswell

• IPA^(key): /jeˈswel/

ġeswel n

1. swelling
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Þæt sixte wīte wæs, þæt mislīċe ḡeswel and blǣdran asprungon on heora līchaman on eallum his folce.

     The sixth plague was that various swellings and pustules sprung up on the bodies of all of his people.

2. tumor
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints

     Þā on þām eahteoþan ġēare siþþan hēo abbudisse wæs, hēo wæs ġeuntrumod swā swā hēo ǣr witeġode, swā þæt ān ġeswel wēox on hire swūran myċel under ċynnbane...

     Then on the eighth year since she became abbotess, she was sickened as she had previously predicted, as a large tumor grew on her neck under the chinbone....

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ge-swel”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.