Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WHITE'-SWELL-ING
WHITE'-SWELL-ING, n. [white and swelling.]
A swelling or chronic enlargement of the joints, circumscribed, without any alteration in the color of the skin, sometimes hard, sometimes yielding to pressure, sometimes indolent, but usually painful. – Cyc.
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