Defn: 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.
INTUMESCENCE
In`tu*mes"cence, n. Etym: [Cf. F. intumescence.]
1. The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat. The intumescence of nations. Johnson.
2. Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor.
INTUMESCENT
In`tu*mes"cent, a. Etym: [L. intumescens, p. pr.]
Defn: Swelling up; expanding.
INTUMULATED
In*tu"mu*la`ted, a. Etym: [L. intumulatus. See In- not, and
Tumulate.]
Defn: Unburied. [Obs.]
INTUNE
In*tune", v. t.
Defn: To intone. Cf. Entune.