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  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. 




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