Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN-TU-MESCE'
IN-TU'I-TIVE-LYIN-TU-MES'CENCE
IN-TU-MESCE', v.i. [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. Kirwan.
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