INTUMESCE, verb intransitive intumes'. [Latin 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.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.