3. (Mil.) A cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops
or artillery, to convey the tools of pioneers, cartridges, and the
like.
4. A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold
hay and other food for sheep. [Eng.]
Tu`me*fac"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. tuméfaction.] The act or process of
tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumor; a swelling. Arbuthnot.
Tu"me*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tumefied (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tumefying.] [F. tuméfier, fr. L. tumere to swell + -ficare (in comp.)
to make; cf. L. tumefacere to tumefy. See Tumid, and -fy.] To swell; to
cause to swell, or puff up.
To swell, tumefy, stiffen, not the diction only, but the tenor of the
thought.
De Quincey.
Tu"me*fy, v. i. To rise in a tumor; to swell.
Tu"mid (?), a. [L. tumidus, fr. tumere to swell; cf. Skr. tumra strong,
fat. Cf. Thumb.] 1. Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg;
tumid flesh.