Swabber
Swab´ber, v. t. To swab. [R.]

Swabber
Swab´ber, n. [D. zwabber; cf.D. zwabberen to swab, G. schwabbern, Dan. svabre, Sw. svab a swab, svabla to swab.]
1. One who swabs a floor or desk. Shak.
2. (Naut.) Formerly, an interior officer on board of British ships of war, whose business it was to see that the ship was kept clean.
3. Same as Swobber, 2.

Swaddle
Swad´dle, n. [AS. sweil, sweel, fr. sweain to bind. See Swathe.] Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band.
"They put me in bed in all my swaddles." Addison.

Swaddle
Swad´dle, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Swaddled p. pr. & vb. n. Swaddling ]
1. To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; — used esp. of infants; as to swaddle a baby.
"They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces of linen." Addison.
2. To beat; to cudgel. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Swaddler
Swad´dler, n. A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. Shipley.

Swaddling
Swad´dling, a. & n. from Swaddle, v. Swaddling band, Swaddling cloth, or Swaddling clout, a band or cloth wrapped round an infant, especially round a newborn infant.
"Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger." Luke ii. 12.

Swag-bellied
Swag´-bel•lied, a. Having a prominent, overhanging belly. Shak.

Swagbelly
Swag´bel•ly, n.
1. A prominent, overhanging belly. Smollett.
2. (Med.) Any large tumor developed in the abdomen, and neither fluctuating nor sonorous. Dunglison.

Swage, v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Swaged p. pr. & vb. n. Swaging ] [Equiv. to suage, abbrev. fr. assuage.] See Assuage. [Obs.]

Swage, n. A tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge. Swage block, a perforated block of iron, having grooved sides and adapted for use in heading bolts and swaging objects of large size.

Swage, v. t. To shape by means of a swage; to fashion, as a piece of iron, by forcing it into a groove or mold having the required shape.

Swagger
Swag´ger, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Swaggered p. pr. & vb. n. Swaggering.] [Freq. of swag.]
1. To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
"A man who swaggers about London clubs." Beaconsfield.
2. To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
"What a pleasant it is … to swagger at the bar!" Arbuthnot.
"To be great is not … to swagger at our footmen." Colier.

Swagger
Swag´ger, v. t. To bully. [R.] Swift.

Swagger
Swag´ger, n. The act or manner of a swaggerer.
"He gave a half swagger, half leer, as he stepped forth to receive us." W. Irving.

Swagger
Swag´ger, n. A swagman. [Australia]

Swaggerer
Swag´ger•er, n. One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow. Shak.

Swaggie
Swag´gie, n. A swagman. [Australia]

Swaggy
Swag´gy, a. Inclined to swag; sinking, hanging, or leaning by its weight. Sir T. Browne.

Swagman
Swag´man, n. A bushman carrying a swag and traveling on foot; — called also swagsman, swagger, and swaggie.

Swagsman
Swags´man, n. A swagman. [Australia] { Swas´ti•ka, Swas´ti•ca }, n. [Also suastica, svastika, etc.] [Skr. svastika, fr. svasti walfare; su well + asti being.] A symbol or ornament in the form of a Greek cross with the ends of the arms at right angles all in the same direction, and each prolonged to the height of the parallel arm of the cross. A great many modified forms exist, ogee and volute as well as rectilinear, while various decorative designs, as Greek fret or meander, are derived from or closely associated with it. The swastika is found in remains from the Bronze Age in various parts of Europe, esp. at Hissarlik (Troy), and was in frequent use as late as the 10th century. It is found in ancient Persia, in India, where both Jains and Buddhists used (or still use) it as religious symbol, in China and Japan, and among Indian tribes of North, Central, and South America. It is usually thought to be a charm, talisman, or religious token, esp. a sign of good luck or benediction. Max MüLler distinguished from the swastika, with arms prolonged to the right, the suavastika, with arms prolonged to the left, but this distinction is not commonly recognized. Other names for the swastika are fylfot and gammadion.

Swain, n. [OE. swain, swein, Icel. sveinn a boy, servant; akin to Sw. sven, Dan. svend, AS. swan, OHG. swein.]
1. A servant. [Obs.]
"Him behoves serve himself that has no swain." Chaucer.
2. A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; — chiefly in poetry.
"It were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain." Shak.
"Blest swains! whose nymphs in every grace excel." Pope.

Swainish
Swain´ish, a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant. "An ungentle and swainish beast." Milton. — Swain´ish•ness, n. Emerson.

Swainling
Swain´ling, n. A little swain. [R.]

Swainmote
Swain´mote, n. [ Swain + mote meeting: cf. LL. swanimotum.] (Eng. Forest Law) A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury. [Written also swanimote, and sweinmote.] Blackstone.

Swainship
Swain´ship, n. The condition of a swain.

Swaip, v. i. [Cf. Sweep.] To walk proudly; to sweep along. [Prov. Eng.] Todd.

Swallet
Swal´let, n. [Cf. G. schwall a sea swell, from schwellen to swell, E. swell.] Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; — so called among tin miners. [Prov. Eng.]

Swallow
Swal´low, n. [OE. swalowe, AS. swalewe, swealwe; akin to D. zwaluw, OHG. swalawa, G. schwalbe, Icel. & Sw. svala, Dan. svale.]
1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. The most common North American species are the barn swallow (see under Barn), the cliff, or eaves, swallow (see under Cliff), the white-bellied, or tree, swallow ( Tachycineta bicolor), and the bank swallow (see under Bank). The common European swallow ( Chelidon rustica), and the window swallow, or martin ( Chelidon urbica), are familiar species.
2. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.
3. (Naut.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves. Ham. Nav. Encyc.Swallow plover (Zoöl.), any one of several species of fork-tailed ploverlike birds of the genus Glareola, as G. orientalis of India; a pratincole. — Swallow shrike (Zoöl.), any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic birds of the family Artamiidae, allied to the shrikes but similar to swallows in appearance and habits. The ashy swallow shrike ( Artamus fuscus) is common in India. — Swallow warbler (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of East Indian and Australian singing birds of the genus Dicaeum. They are allied to the honeysuckers.

Swallow
Swal´low, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Swallowed p. pr. & vb. n. Swallowing.] [OE. swolewen, swolwen, swolhen, AS. swelgan; akin to D. zwelgen, OHG. swelahan, swelgan, G. schwelgen to feast, to revel, Icel. svelgia to swallow, SW. svälja, Dan. svaelge. Cf. Groundsel a plant.]
1. To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as to swallow food or drink.
"As if I had swallowed snowballs for pills." Shak.
2. To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb — usually followed by up. Milton.
"The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses." Num. xvi. 32.
3. To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.
"Though that story … be not so readily swallowed." Sir T. Browne.
4. To engross; to appropriate; — usually with up.
"Homer excels … in this, that he swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him." Pope.
5. To occupy; to take up; to employ.
"The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time." Locke.
6. To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.
"Corruption swallowed what the liberal hand Of bounty scattered." Thomson.
7. To retract; to recant; as to swallow one’s opinions. "Swallowed his vows whole." Shak.
8. To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as to swallow an affront or insult.
Syn. — To absorb; imbibe; ingulf; engross; consume. See Absorb.

Swallow
Swal´low, v. i. To perform the act of swallowing; as his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow.

Swallow
Swal´low, n.
1. The act of swallowing.
2. The gullet, or esophagus; the throat.
3. Taste; relish; inclination; liking. [Colloq.]
"I have no swallow for it." Massinger.
4. Capacity for swallowing; voracity.
"There being nothing too gross for the swallow of political rancor." Prof. Wilson.
5. As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as a swallow of water.
6. That which ingulfs; a whirlpool. [Obs.] Fabyan.

Swallower
Swal´low•er, n. One who swallows; also a glutton. Tatler.

Swallowfish
Swal´low•fish, n. (Zoöl.) The European sapphirine gurnard ( Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.

Swallowtail
Swal´low•tail, n.
1. (Carp.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
2. (Bot.) A species of willow.
3. (Fort.) An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reëntrant angle; — so called from its form. Called also priestcap.
4. A swallow-tailed coat.
"This Stultz coat, a blue swallowtail, with yellow buttons." Thackeray.
5. An arrow. Sir W. Scott.
6. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of large and handsome butterflies, belonging to Papilio and allied genera, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe. The black swallowtail, or asterias (see Papilio), the blue swallowtail, or philenor, the tiger swallowtail, or turnus (see Turnus), and the zebra swallowtail, or ajax (see under Zebra) are common American species. See also Troilus.

Swallowwort
Swal´low•wort, n. (Bot.) (a) See Celandine. (b) A poisonous plant ( Vincetoxicum officinale) of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; — also called white swallowwort. African swallowwort, a plant of the genus Stapelia.

Swampy
Swamp´y, a. Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as swampy land.

Swan, n. [AS. swan; akin to D. zwaan, OHG. swan, G. schwan, Icel. svanr, Sw. svan, Dan. svane; and perhaps to E. sound something audible.]
1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have a large and strong beak and a long neck, and are noted for their graceful movements when swimming. Most of the northern species are white. In literature the swan was fabled to sing a melodious song, especially at the time of its death. The European white, or mute, swan ( Cygnus gibbus), which is most commonly domesticated, bends its neck in an S-shaped curve. The whistling, or trumpeting, swans of the genus Olor do not bend the neck in an S-shaped curve, and are noted for their loud and sonorous cry, due to complex convolutions of the windpipe. To this genus belong the European whooper, or whistling swan ( Olor cygnus), the American whistling swan ( O. Columbianus), and the trumpeter swan ( O. buccinator). The Australian black swan ( Chenopis atrata) is dull black with white on the wings, and has the bill carmine, crossed with a white band. It is a very graceful species and is often domesticated. The South American black-necked swan ( Sthenelides melancorypha) is a very beautiful and graceful species, entirely white, except the head and neck, which are dark velvety seal-brown. Its bill has a double bright rose-colored knob.
2. Fig.: An appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace and melody; as Shakespeare is called the swan of Avon.
3. (Astron.) The constellation Cygnus. Swan goose (Zoöl.), a bird of India ( Cygnopsis cygnoides) resembling both the swan and the goose. — Swan shot, a large size of shot used in fowling.

Swang, obs. imp. of Swing.

Swang, n. [Cf. Swamp.] A swamp. [Prov. Eng.]

Swan-hopping
Swan´-hop•ping, n. A corruption of Swan-upping. [Eng.] Encyc. Brit.

Swanmark
Swan´mark, n. A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan. [Eng.] Encyc. Brit.

Swannery
Swan´ner•y, n. A place where swans are bred. "The largest swannery in England." Encyc. Brit.

Swanny
Swan´ny, a. Swanlike; as a swanny glossiness of the neck. Richardson.

Swanpan
Swan´pan, n. [Cf. Schwanpan.] The Chinese abacus; a schwanpan. S. W. Williams. { Swan’s´-down•, or Swans´-down• }, n.
1. The down, or fine, soft feathers, of the swan, used on various articles of dress.
2. A fine, soft, thick cloth of wool mixed with silk or cotton; a sort of twilled fustian, like moleskin. Swan’s-down cotton. See Cotton flannel, under Cotton.

Swan-upping
Swan´-up•ping, n. A yearly expedition on the Thames to take up young swans and mark them, as by Companies of Dyers and Vintners; — called also swan- hopping. [Eng.] Encyc. Brit.

Swap, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Swapped p. pr. & vb. n. Swapping.] [OE. swappen to strike; cf. E. to strike a bargain; perh. akin to E. sweep. Cf. Swap a blow, Swap, v. i.] [Written also swop.]
1. To strike; — with off. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "Swap off his head!" Chaucer.
2. To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop. [Colloq.] Miss Edgeworth.

Swap, v. i. [Cf. Swap, v. t.]
1. To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently. C. Richardson (Dict.).
"All suddenly she swapt adown to ground." Chaucer.
2. To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.

Swap, n. [Cf. G. schwapp, n., a slap, swap, schwapp, schwapps, interj., slap! smack! and E. swap, v.t.]
1. A blow; a stroke. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
2. An exchange; a barter. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.

Swap, adv. [See Swap, n. ] Hastily. [Prov. Eng.]

Swarded
Sward´ed, a. Covered with sward. Mrs. Browning.

Swardy
Sward´y, a. Covered with sward or grass.

Sware, imp. of Swear. [Obs. or Poetic]
"Cophetua sware a royal oath." Tennyson.

Swarmspore
Swarm´spore, n.
1. (Bot.) One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algae and fungi; a zoöspore.
2. (Zoöl.) One of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; — called also zoöspore.

Swart, n. Sward. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Swart, a. [OE. swart, AS. sweart black; akin to OFries, OS. & LG. swart, D. zwart, G. schwartz, OHG. swarz, Icel. svarir, Sw. svart, Dan. sort, Goth. swarts; cf. L. sordes dirt, sordere to be dirty. Cf. Sordid, Surd.]
1. Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. "Swart attendants." Trench. "Swart savage maids." Hawthorne.
"A nation strange, with visage swart." Spenser.
2. Gloomy; malignant. [Obs.] Milton. Swart star, the Dog Star; — so called from its appearing during the hot weather of summer, which makes swart the countenance. [R.] Milton.

Swart, v. t. To make swart or tawny; as to swart a living part. Sir T. Browne.

Swartback
Swart´back, n. (Zoöl.) The black-backed gull ( Larus marinus); — called also swarbie. [Prov. Eng.]

Swarth, a. Swart; swarthy. "A swarth complexion." Chapman.

Swarth, n. An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

Swarth, n. [See Sward.] Sward; short grass.
"Grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheep." Cowper.

Swarth, n. See Swath.

Swarthiness
Swarth´i•ness, n. The quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness.

Swarthness
Swarth´ness, n. Swarthiness. [R.] Dr. R. Clerke.

Swarthy
Swarth´y, a. [ Compar. Swarthier superl. Swarthiest.] [See Swart, a. ] Being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny; swart; as swarthy faces. "A swarthy Ethiope." Shak.
"Their swarthy hosts would darken all our plains." Addison.

Swarthy
Swarth´y, v. t. To make swarthy. [Obs.] Cowley.

Swartiness
Swart´i•ness, n. Swarthiness. [Obs.]

Swartish
Swart´ish, a. Somewhat swart, dark, or tawny.

Swartness
Swart´ness, n. The quality or state of being swart.

Swarty
Swart´y, a. Swarthy; tawny. [Obs.] Burton.

Swarve, v. i. [See Swerve.]
1. To swerve. [Obs. or Scot.] Spenser. Jamieson.
2. To climb. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Swashbuckler
Swash´buc•kler, n. A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer. Milton.

Swasher
Swash´er, n. One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms. Shak.

Swashing
Swash´ing, a.
1. Swaggering; hectoring. "A swashing and martial outside." Shak.
2. Resounding; crushing. "Swashing blow." Shak.

Swashway
Swash´way, n. Same as 4th Swash, 2.

Swat (swot), obs. imp. of Sweat. Chaucer.

Swate (swat), obs. imp. of Sweat. Thomson.

Swather
Swath´er, n. [See Swath, n. ] (Agric.) A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.

Sway bar. (Vehicles) (a) A bar attached to the hounds, in the rear of the front axle, so as to slide on the reach as the axle is swung in turning the vehicle. (b) Either of the two bars used in coupling the front and rear sleds of a logging sled; also the bar used to couple two logging cars.

Sway-backed
Sway´-backed, a. Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; — said of horses and other animals.

Sway-bracing
Sway´-bra•cing, n. (Engin.) The horizontal bracing of a bridge, which prevents its swaying.

Swayed, a. Bent down, and hollow in the back; sway-backed; — said of a horse. Shak.

Swayful
Sway´ful, a. Able to sway. [R.] Rush.

Swaying
Sway´ing, n. An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; — said of the backs of horses. Crabb.

Sweal, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Swealed p. pr. & vb. n. Swealing.] [OE. swelen to burn, AS. swelan; akin to G. schwelen to burn slowly, schwül sultry, Icel. svaela a thick smoke.] To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame. [Written also swale.] Sir W. Scott.

Sweal, v. t. To singe; to scorch; to swale; as to sweal a pig by singeing off the hair.

Swear, v. i. [ imp. Swore, formerly Sware ; p. p. Sworn p. pr. & vb. n. Swearing.] [OE. swerien, AS. swerian; akin to D. zweren, OS. swerian, OHG. swerien, G. schwören, Icel. sverja, Sw. svärja, Dan. svaerge, Icel. & Sw. svara to answer, Dan. svare, Dan. & Sw. svar an answer, Goth. swaran to swear, and perhaps to E. swarm. rad.177. Cf. Answer.]
1. To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also to affirm solemnly by some sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the Bible, the Koran, etc.
"Ye shall swear by my name falsely." Lev. xix. 12.
"I swear by all the Roman gods." Shak.
2. (Law) To give evidence on oath; as to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner.
3. To make an appeal to God in an irreverant manner; to use the name of God or sacred things profanely; to call upon God in imprecation; to curse.
"[I] swore little; diced not above seven times a week." Shak. To swear by, to place great confidence in a person or thing; to trust implicitly as an authority. "I simply meant to ask if you are one of those who swear by Lord Verulam." Miss Edgeworth. — To swear off, to make a solemn vow, or a serious resolution, to abstain from something; as to swear off smoking. [Slang]

Swear, v. t.
1. To utter or affirm with a solemn appeal to God for the truth of the declaration; to make (a promise, threat, or resolve) under oath.
"Swear unto me here by God, that thou wilt not deal falsely with me." Gen. xxi. 23.
"He swore consent to your succession." Shak.
2. (Law) To put to an oath; to cause to take an oath; to administer an oath to; — ofetn followed by in or into; as to swear witnesses; to swear a jury; to swear in an officer; he was sworn into office.
3. To declare or charge upon oath; as he swore treason against his friend. Johnson.
4. To appeal to by an oath.
"Now, by Apollo, king, Thou swear’st thy gods in vain." Shak. To swear the peace against one, to make oath that one is under the actual fear of death or bodily harm from the person, in which case the person must find sureties that he will keep the peace.

Swearer
Swear´er, n.
1. One who swears; one who calls God to witness for the truth of his declaration.
2. A profane person; one who uses profane language.
"Then the liars and swearers are fools." Shak.

Swearing
Swear´ing, a. & n. from Swear, v.
"Idle swearing is a cursedness." Chaucer.

Sweatily
Sweat´i•ly, adv. In a sweaty manner.

Sweatiness
Sweat´i•ness, n. Quality or state of being sweaty.

Sweating
Sweat´ing, a. & n. from Sweat, v. Sweating bath, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory. — Sweating house, a house for sweating persons in sickness. — Sweating iron, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper. — Sweating room. (a) A room for sweating persons. (b) (Dairying) A room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices. — Sweating sickness (Med.), a febrile epidemic disease which prevailed in some countries of Europe, but particularly in England, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, characterized by profuse sweating. Death often occured in a few hours.

Swedenborgianism
Swe•den•bor´gi•an•ism, n. The doctrines of the Swedenborgians.

Swedish
Swed´ish, a. [Cf. G. schwedisch, Sw. svensk.] Of or pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants. Swedish turnip. (Bot.) See under Turnip.

Swedish
Swed´ish, n. The language of Swedes.

Sweeny
Swee´ny, n. (Far.) An atrophy of the muscles of the shoulder in horses; also atrophy of any muscle in horses. [Written also swinney.]

Sweep, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Swept p. pr. & vb. n. Sweeping.] [OE. swepen; akin to AS. swapan. See Swoop, v. i.]
1. To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney. Used also figuratively.
"I will sweep it with the besom of destruction." Isa. xiv. 23.
2. To drive or carry along or off with a broom or a brush, or as if with a broom; to remove by, or as if by, brushing; as to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes.
"The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies." Isa. xxviii. 17.
"I have already swept the stakes." Dryden.
3. To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
"Their long descending train, With rubies edged and sapphires, swept the plain." Dryden.
4. To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
"And like a peacock sweep along his tail." Shak.
5. To strike with a long stroke.
"Wake into voice each silent string, And sweep the sounding lyre." Pope.
6. (Naut.) To draw or drag something over; as to sweep the bottom of a river with a net.
7. To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as to sweep the heavens with a telescope. To sweep, or sweep up, a mold (Founding), to form the sand into a mold by a templet, instead of compressing it around the pattern.

Sweep, v. i.
1. To clean rooms, yards, etc., or to clear away dust, dirt, litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like.
2. To brush swiftly over the surface of anything; to pass with switness and force, as if brushing the surface of anything; to move in a stately manner; as the wind sweeps across the plain; a woman sweeps through a drawing- room.
3. To pass over anything comprehensively; to range through with rapidity; as his eye sweeps through space.

Sweep, n.
1. The act of sweeping.
2. The compass or range of a stroke; as a long sweep.
3. The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.
4. The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as the flood carried away everything within its sweep.
5. Violent and general destruction; as the sweep of an epidemic disease.
6. Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as the sweep of a compass.
7. Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the like, away from a rectlinear line.
"The road which makes a small sweep." Sir W. Scott.
8. One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney sweeper.
9. (Founding) A movable templet for making molds, in loam molding.
10. (Naut.) (a) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of a circle. (b) A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
11. (Refining) The almond furnace. [Obs.]
12. A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water. [Variously written swape, sweep, swepe, and swipe.]
13. (Card Playing) In the game of casino, a pairing or combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.
14. pl. The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc. Sweep net, a net for drawing over a large compass. — Sweep of the tiller (Naut.), a circular frame on which the tiller traverses.

Sweepage
Sweep´age, n. The crop of hay got in a meadow. [Prov. Eng.]

Sweeper
Sweep´er, n. One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as a carpet sweeper.
"It is oxygen which is the great sweeper of the economy." Huxley.

Sweeping
Sweep´ing, a. Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation. — Sweep´ing•ly, adv. - Sweep´ing•ness, n.

Sweepings
Sweep´ings, n. pl. Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as the sweepings of a street.

Sweep-saw
Sweep´-saw, n. A bow- saw.

Sweepstake
Sweep´stake, n.
1. A winning of all the stakes or prizes. Heylin.
2. A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

Sweepstakes
Sweep´stakes, n.
1. A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.
2. sing. or pl. The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed.
3. A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered.

Sweepwasher
Sweep´wash•er, n. One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used.

Sweepy
Sweep´y, a. Moving with a sweeping motion.
"The branches bend before their sweepy away." Dryden.

Sweet, a. [ Compar. Sweeter superl. Sweetest.] [OE. swete, swote, sote, AS. swete; akin to OFries. swete, OS. swoti, D. zoet, G. süss, OHG. suozi, Icel. saetr, sœtr, Sw. söt, Dan. söd, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for suadvis, Gr., Skr. svadu sweet, svad, svad, to sweeten. rad.175. Cf. Assuage, Suave, Suasion.]
1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; — opposed to sour and bitter; as a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
"The breath of these flowers is sweet to me." Longfellow.
3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer.
"To make his English sweet upon his tongue." Chaucer.
"A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful." Hawthorne.
4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
"Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains." Milton.
5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as sweet water. Bacon.
6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as sweet manners.
"Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?" Job xxxviii. 31.
"Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working." M. Arnold. Sweet is often used in the formation of self- explaining compounds; as sweet-blossomed, sweet- featured, sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet- toned, etc. Sweet alyssum. (Bot.) See Alyssum. — Sweet apple. (Bot.) (a) Any apple of sweet flavor. (b) See Sweet-top. — Sweet bay. (Bot.) (a) The laurel ( laurus nobilis). (b) Swamp sassafras. — Sweet calabash (Bot.), a plant of the genus Passiflora ( P. maliformis) growing in the West Indies, and producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple. — Sweet cicely. (Bot.) (a) Either of the North American plants of the umbelliferous genus Osmorrhiza having aromatic roots and seeds, and white flowers. Gray. (b) A plant of the genus Myrrhis ( M. odorata) growing in England. — Sweet calamus, or Sweet cane. (Bot.) Same as Sweet flag, below. — Sweet Cistus (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ( Cistus Ladanum) from which the gum ladanum is obtained. — Sweet clover. (Bot.) See Melilot. — Sweet coltsfoot (Bot.), a kind of butterbur ( Petasites sagittata) found in Western North America. — Sweet corn (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste. See the Note under Corn. — Sweet fern (Bot.), a small North American shrub ( Comptonia, or Myrica, asplenifolia) having sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves. — Sweet flag (Bot.), an endogenous plant ( Acorus Calamus) having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and America. See Calamus, 2. — Sweet gale (Bot.), a shrub ( Myrica Gale) having bitter fragrant leaves; — also called sweet willow, and Dutch myrtle. See 5th Gale. — Sweet grass (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass. — Sweet gum (Bot.), an American tree ( Liquidambar styraciflua). See Liquidambar. — Sweet herbs, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary purposes. — Sweet John (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William. — Sweet leaf (Bot.), horse sugar. See under Horse. — Sweet marjoram. (Bot.) See Marjoram. — Sweet marten (Zoöl.), the pine marten. — Sweet maudlin (Bot.), a composite plant ( Achillea Ageratum) allied to milfoil. — Sweet oil, olive oil. — Sweet pea. (Bot.) See under Pea. — Sweet potato. (Bot.) See under Potato. — Sweet rush (Bot.), sweet flag. — Sweet spirits of niter (Med. Chem.) See Spirit of nitrous ether, under Spirit. — Sweet sultan (Bot.), an annual composite plant ( Centaurea moschata), also the yellow-flowered ( C. odorata); — called also sultan flower. — Sweet tooth, an especial fondness for sweet things or for sweetmeats. [Colloq.] — Sweet William. (a) (Bot.) A species of pink ( Dianthus barbatus) of many varieties. (b) (Zoöl.) The willow warbler. (c) (Zoöl.) The European goldfinch; — called also sweet Billy. [Prov. Eng.] — Sweet willow (Bot.), sweet gale. — Sweet wine. See Dry wine, under Dry. — To be sweet on, to have a particular fondness for, or special interest in, as a young man for a young woman. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
Syn. — Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.

Sweet, n.
1. That which is sweet to the taste; — used chiefly in the plural. Specifically: (a) Confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc. (b) Home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.
2. That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume. "A wilderness of sweets." Milton.
3. That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as the sweets of domestic life.
"A little bitter mingled in our cup leaves no relish of the sweet." Locke.
4. One who is dear to another; a darling; — a term of endearment. "Wherefore frowns my sweet?" B. Jonson.

Sweet, adv. Sweetly. Shak.

Sweet, v. t. To sweeten. [Obs.] Udall.

Sweetbread
Sweet´bread, n.
1. Either the thymus gland or the pancreas the former being called neck, or throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.
2. (Anat.) The pancreas.

Sweeten
Sweet´en, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sweetened p. pr. & vb. n. Sweetening.] [See Sweet, a. ]
1. To make sweet to the taste; as to sweeten tea.
2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
3. To make mild or kind; to soften; as to sweeten the temper.
4. To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as to sweeten the cares of life. Dryden.
"And sweeten every secret tear." Keble.
5. To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
"Correggio has made his memory immortal by the strength he has given to his figures, and by sweetening his lights and shadows, and melting them into each other." Dryden.
6. To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
7. To make warm and fertile; — opposed to sour; as to dry and sweeten soils.
8. To restore to purity; to free from taint; as to sweeten water, butter, or meat.

Sweeten
Sweet´en, v. i. To become sweet. Bacon.

Sweetener
Sweet´en•er, n. One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.

Sweetening
Sweet´en•ing, n.
1. The act of making sweet.
2. That which sweetens.

Sweetheart
Sweet´heart, n. A lover of mistress.

Sweethearting
Sweet´heart•ing, n. Making love. "To play at sweethearting." W. Black.

Sweeting
Sweet´ing, n.
1. A sweet apple. Ascham.
2. A darling; — a word of endearment. Shak.

Sweetish
Sweet´ish, a. Somewhat sweet. — Sweet´ish•ness, n.

Sweetly
Sweet´ly, adv. [AS. swetlice.] In a sweet manner.

Sweetmeat
Sweet´meat, n.
1. Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; — usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
2. The paint used in making patent leather.
3. (Zoöl.) A boat shell ( Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast. [Local, U.S.]

Sweetness
Sweet´ness, n. [AS. swetness.] The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.

Sweetroot
Sweet´root, n. (Bot.) Licorice.

Sweet-scented
Sweet´-scent•ed, a. Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant. Sweet-scented shrub (Bot.), a shrub of the genus Calycanthus, the flowers of which, when crushed, have a fragrance resembling that of strawberries.

Sweet-sop
Sweet´-sop, n. (Bot.) A kind of custard apple ( Anona squamosa). See under Custard.

Sweetweed
Sweet´weed, n. (Bot.) A name for two tropical American weeds ( Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.

Sweetwood
Sweet´wood, n. (Bot.) (a) The true laurel ( Laurus nobilis.) (b) The timber of the tree Oreodaphne Leucoxylon, growing in Jamaica. The name is also applied to the timber of several other related trees.

Sweetwort
Sweet´wort, n. Any plant of a sweet taste.

Sweigh, n. Sway; movement. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Sweinmote
Swein´mote, n. See Swainmote. [Obs.]

Swellfish
Swell´fish, n. (Zoöl.) Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.

Swelling
Swell´ing, n.
1. The act of that which swells; as the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride.
"Rise to the swelling of the voiceless sea." Coleridge.
2. A protuberance; a prominence; especially (Med.), an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as a scrofulous swelling.
"The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings." Sir I. Newton.

Swellish
Swell´ish, a. Dandified; stylish. [Slang]

Swelltoad
Swell´toad, n. (Zoöl.) A swellfish.

Swelt, obs. imp. of Swell.

Swelt, v. i. [OE. swelten to die, to swoon or faint, AS. sweltan to die; akin to OD. swelten to hunger, to fail, OS. sweltan to die, Icel. svelta to die, to hunger, Sw. svälta to hunger, Dan. sulte, Goth. sviltan to die. Cf. Swelter, Sweltry.]
1. To die; to perish. [Obs.]
2. To faint; to swoon. [Obs.] Chaucer.
"Night she swelt for passing joy." Spenser.

Swelt, v. t. To overpower, as with heat; to cause to faint; to swelter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Bp. Hall.

Swelter
Swel´ter, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Sweltered p. pr. & vb. n. Sweltering.] [From Swelt, v. i.]
1. To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat. "Sweltered cattle." Coleridge.
2. To welter; to soak. [Obs.] Drayton.

Swelter
Swel´ter, v. t.
1. To oppress with heat. Bentley.
2. To exude, like sweat. [R.] Shak.

Sweltry
Swel´try, a. [See Swelter, Swelt, v. i., and cf. Sultry.] Suffocating with heat; oppressively hot; sultry. [R.] Evelyn.

Swept, imp. & p. p. of Sweep.

Swerve, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Swerved p. pr. & vb. n. Swerving.] [OE. swerven, AS. sweorfan to wipe off, to file, to polish; akin to OFries. swerva to creep, D. zwerven to swerve, to rope, OS. swerban to wipe off, MHG. swerben to be whirled, OHG. swerban to wipe off, Icel. sverfa to file, Goth. swaírban (in comp.) to wipe, and perhaps to E. swarm. Cf. Swarm.]
1. To stray; to wander; to rope. [Obs.]
"A maid thitherward did run, To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve." Sir P. Sidney.
2. To go out of a straight line; to deflect. "The point [of the sword] swerved." Sir P. Sidney.
3. To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
"I swerve not from thy commandments." Bk. of Com. Prayer.
"They swerve from the strict letter of the law." Clarendon.
"Many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy religion." Atterbury.
4. To bend; to incline. "The battle swerved." Milton.
5. To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
"The tree was high; Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved." Dryden.

Swerve, v. t. To turn aside. Gauden.

Sweven
Swe´ven, n. [AS. swefen sleep, dream; akin to swebban, swefian, to put to sleep, to kill. rad.176. See Somnolent.] A vision seen in sleep; a dream. [Obs.] Wycliff (Acts ii. 17).
"I defy both sweven and dream." Chaucer.

Swift, a. [ Compar. Swifter superl. Swiftest.] [AS. swift; akin to swapan to sweep, swipu a whip; cf. swifan to move quickly, to revolve. See Swoop, v. i., and cf. Swivel, Squib.]
1. Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt.
"My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath." James i. 19.
"Swift of dispatch and easy of access." Dryden.
"And bring upon themselves swift destruction." 2 Pet. ii. 1.
2. Of short continuance; passing away quickly. Shak. Swift is often used in the formation of compounds which are generally self-explaining; as swift-darting, swift-footed, swift-winged, etc.
Syn. — Quick; fleet; speedy; rapid; expeditious.

Swift, adv. Swiftly. [Obs. or Poetic] Shak.
"Ply swift and strong the oar." Southey.

Swift, n.
1. The current of a stream. [R.] Walton.
2. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small, long-winged, insectivorous birds of the family Micropodidae. In form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds. The common European swift ( Cypselus, or Micropus, apus) nests in church steeples and under the tiles of roofs, and is noted for its rapid flight and shrill screams. It is called also black martin, black swift, hawk swallow, devil bird, swingdevil, screech martin, and shreik owl. The common American, or chimney, swift ( Chaetura pelagica) has sharp rigid tips to the tail feathers. It attaches its nest to the inner walls of chimneys, and is called also chimney swallow. The Australian swift ( Chaetura caudacuta) also has sharp naked tips to the tail quills. The European Alpine swift ( Cypselus melba) is whitish beneath, with a white band across the breast. The common Indian swift is Cypselus affinis. See also Palm swift, under Palm, and Tree swift, under Tree.
3. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of lizards, as the pine lizard.
4. (Zoöl.) The ghost moth. See under Ghost.
5. [Cf. Swivel.] A reel, or turning instrument, for winding yarn, thread, etc.; — used chiefly in the plural.
6. The main card cylinder of a flax-carding machine.

Swiftfoot
Swift´foot, a. Nimble; fleet. Mir. for Mag.

Swiftfoot
Swift´foot, n. (Zoöl.) The courser.

Swiftlet
Swift´let, n. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird’s nest. See Illust. under Edible.

Swiftness
Swift´ness, n. The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.

Swig, v. t. [Cf. D. zwelgen to swallow, E. swallow, v.t.]
1. To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as to swig cider. [Colloq.]
2. To suck. [Obs. or Archaic]
"The lambkins swig the teat." Creech.

Swig, n.
1. A long draught. [Colloq.] Marryat.
2. (Naut.) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
3. A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc. [Prov. Eng.]

Swig, v. t. [Cf. Prov. E. swig to leak out, AS. swijian to be silent, swican to evade, escape.]
1. To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off. [Prov. Eng.]
2. (Naut.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.

Swill, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Swilled p. pr. & vb. n. Swilling.] [OE. swilen to wash, AS. swilian.]
1. To wash; to drench. [Obs.]
"As fearfully as doth a galled rock O’erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean." Shak.
2. [Properly, to drink like a pig. See Swill, n. ] To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily.
"Well-dressed people, of both sexes, … devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider." Smollett.
3. To inebriate; to fill with drink.
"I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers." Milton.

Swill, v. i. To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess. South.

Swill, n.
1. The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; — called also swillings.
2. Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.

Swiller
Swill´er, n. One who swills.

Swillings
Swill´ings, n. pl. See Swill, n. , 1.

Swimmer
Swim´mer, n.
1. One who swims.
2. (Far.) A protuberance on the leg of a horse.
3. (Zoöl.) A swimming bird; one of the natatores. Little swimmer (Zoöl.), a phalarope.

Swimmeret
Swim´mer•et, n. (Zoöl.) One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.

Swimming
Swim´ming, a.
1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as a swimming bird; a swimming motion.
2. Suffused with moisture; as swimming eyes. Swimming bell (Zoöl.), a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora. — Swimming crab (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of marine crabs, as those of the family Protunidae, which have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs flattened so as to serve as fins.

Swimming
Swim´ming, n. The act of one who swims.

Swimming
Swim´ming, a. [From Swim to be dizzy.] Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as a swimming brain.

Swimming
Swim´ming, n. Vertigo; dizziness; as a swimming in the head. Dryden.

Swimmingly
Swim´ming•ly, adv. In an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously.

Swimmingness
Swim´ming•ness, n. Act or state of swimming; suffusion. "A swimmingness in the eye." Congreve.

Swinck, v. & n. See Swink. [Obs.]

Swindler
Swin´dler, n. [G. schwindler, fr. schwindlen to be dizzy, to act thoughtlessly, to cheat, fr. schwindel dizziness, fr. schwinden to vanish, to disappear, to dwindle. See Swim to be dizzy.] One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.
Syn. — Sharper; rogue. — Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages. A swindler is one who obtains money or goods under false pretenses. A sharper is one who cheats by sharp practice, as in playing at cards or staking what he can not pay.
"Fraud and injustice soon follow, and the dignity of the British merchant is sunk in the scandalous appellation of a swindler." V. Knox.
"Perhaps you ’ll think I act the same As a sly sharper plays his game." Cotton.

Swine, n.sing. & pl. [OE. swin, AS. swin; akin to OFries. & OS. swin, D. zwijn, G. schwein, OHG. swin, Icel. svin, Sw. svin, Dan. sviin, Goth. swein; originally a diminutive corresponding to E. sow. See Sow, n. ] (Zoöl.) Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog. "A great herd of swine." Mark v. 11.Swine grass (Bot.), knotgrass ( Polygonum aviculare); — so called because eaten by swine. — Swine oat (Bot.), a kind of oat sometimes grown for swine. — Swine’s cress (Bot.), a species of cress of the genus Senebiera ( S. Coronopus). — Swine’s head, a dolt; a blockhead. [Obs.] Chaucer. - - Swine thistle (Bot.), the sow thistle.

Swinecase
Swine´case, n. A hogsty. [Prov. Eng.]

Swinecote
Swine´cote, n. A hogsty. [Prov. Eng.]

Swinecrue
Swine´crue, n. [ Swine + Prov. E. crue a coop.] A hogsty. [Prov. Eng.]

Swinefish
Swine´fish, n. (Zoöl.) The wolf fish.

Swineherd
Swine´herd, n. A keeper of swine.

Swinepipe
Swine´pipe, n. (Zoöl.) The European redwing. [Prov. Eng.]

Swine-pox
Swine´-pox, n. (Med.) A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox. Pepys.

Swinery
Swin´er•y (swin"er•y), n. Same as Piggery. [R.]

Swing, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Swung Archaic imp. Swang p. pr. & vb. n. Swinging.] [OE. swingen, AS. swingan to scourge, to fly, to flutter; akin to G. schwingen to winnow, to swingle, oscillate, sich schwingen to leap, to soar, OHG. swingan to throw, to scourge, to soar, Sw. svinga to swing, to whirl, Dan. svinge. Cf. Swagger, Sway, Swinge, Swink.]
1. To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
"I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer, in case of exsuction of the air." Boyle.
2. To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as the door swung open.
3. To use a swing; as a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See Swing, n. , 3.
4. (Naut.) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as a ship swings with the tide.
5. To be hanged. [Colloq.] D. Webster.To swing round the circle, to make a complete circuit. [Colloq.]
"He had swung round the circle of theories and systems in which his age abounded, without finding relief." A. V. G. Allen.

Swing, v. t.
1. To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.
"He swings his tail, and swiftly turns his round." Dryden.
"They get on ropes, as you must have seen the children, and are swung by their men visitants." Spectator.
2. To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as to swing a business.
3. (Mach.) To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; — said of a lathe; as the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter. To swing a door, gate, etc. (Carp.), to put it on hinges so that it can swing or turn.

Swing, n.
1. The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as the swing of a pendulum.
2. Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as some men walk with a swing.
3. A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise.
4. Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.
"The ram that batters down the wall, For the great swing and rudeness of his poise, They place before his hand that made the engine." Shak.
5. Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
6. Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency. "Take thy swing." Dryden.
"To prevent anything which may prove an obstacle to the full swing of his genius." Burke. Full swing. See under Full. — Swing beam (Railway Mach.), a crosspiece sustaining the car body, and so suspended from the framing of a truck that it may have an independent lateral motion. — Swing bridge, a form of drawbridge which swings horizontally, as on a vertical pivot. — Swing plow, or Swing plough. (a) A plow without a fore wheel under the beam. (b) A reversible or sidehill plow. — Swing wheel. (a) The scape-wheel in a clock, which drives the pendulum. (b) The balance of a watch.

Swinge (swinj), v. & n. See Singe. [Obs.] Spenser.

Swinge, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Swinged (swinjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Swingeing (swinj"ing).] [OE. swengen, AS. swengan to shake, causative of swingan. See Swing.]
1. To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish.
"I had swinged him soundly." Shak.
"And swinges his own vices in his son." C. Dryden.
2. To move as a lash; to lash. [Obs.]
"Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail." Milton.

Swinge, n.
1. The sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing. [Obs.] Waller.
2. Power; sway; influence. [Obs.]

Swingebuckler
Swinge´buc•kler, n. A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer. [Obs.] Shak.

Swingeing
Swinge´ing, a. Huge; very large. [Colloq.] Arbuthnot. Byron. — Swinge´ing•ly, adv. Dryden.

Swingel
Swin´gel, n. [AS. swingele whip, scourge. See Swing.] The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.

Swingle
Swin´gle, v. i. [Freq. of swing.]
1. To dangle; to wave hanging. [Obs.] Johnson.
2. To swing for pleasure. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Swingle
Swin´gle, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Swingled p. pr. & vb. n. Swingling ] [See Swingel.]
1. To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch.
2. To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; — said of weeds. [Prov. Eng.] Forby.

Swingle
Swin´gle, n. A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; — called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand.

Swinglebar
Swin´gle•bar, n. A swingletree. De Quincey.

Swingletail
Swin´gle•tail, n. (Zoöl.) The thrasher, or fox shark. See Thrasher.

Swinish
Swin´ish, a. Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as a swinish drunkard or sot. "Swinish gluttony." Milton. — Swin´ish•ly, adv. — Swin´ish•ness, n.

Swink, v. i. [ imp. Swank, Swonk ; p. p. Swonken p. pr. & vb. n. Swinking.] [AS. swincan, akin to swingan. See Swing.] To labor; to toil; to salve. [Obs. or Archaic]
"Or swink with his hands and labor." Chaucer.
"For which men swink and sweat incessantly." Spenser.
"The swinking crowd at every stroke pant "Ho."" Sir Samuel Freguson.

Swink, v. t.
1. To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor. [Obs.]
"And the swinked hedger at his supper sat." Milton.
2. To acquire by labor. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
"To devour all that others swink." Chaucer.

Swink, n. [As. swinc, ge swinc.] Labor; toil; drudgery. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

Swinker
Swink´er, n. A laborer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Swinney
Swin´ney, n. (Far.) See Sweeny.

Swish, v. t. [From the sound. Cf. Swash.]
1. To flourish, so as to make the sound swish. Coleridge.
2. To flog; to lash. [Slang] Thackeray.

Swish, v. i. To dash; to swash.

Swish, n.
1. A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air. [Colloq.]
2. (Naut.) Light driven spray. [Eng.]

Swiss, n.sing. & pl. [F. Suisse, of German origin. Cf. Switzer.] A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Switzer; the people of Switzerland.

Swiss, a. Of or pertaining to Switzerland, or the people of Switzerland.

Switch, n. [Cf. OD. swick a scourage, a whip. Cf. Swink, Swing.]
1. A small, flexible twig or rod.
"Mauritania, on the fifth medal, leads a horse with something like a thread; in her other hand she holds a switch." Addison.
2. (Railways) A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.
3. A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.
4. (Elec.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit. Safety switch (Railways), a form of switch contrived to prevent or lessen the danger of derailment of trains. — Switch back (Railways), an arrangement of tracks whereby elevations otherwise insurmountable are passed. The track ascends by a series of zigzags, the engine running alternately forward and back, until the summit is reached. — Switch board (Elec.), a collection of switches in one piece of apparatus, so arranged that a number of circuits may be connected or combined in any desired manner. — Switch grass. (Bot.) See under Grass.

Switch, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Switched p. pr. & vb. n. Switching.]
1. To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip. Chapman.
2. To swing or whisk; as to switch a cane.
3. To trim, as a hedge. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
4. To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; — generally with off, from, etc.; as to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.
5. (Eccl.) To shift to another circuit.

Switch, v. i. To walk with a jerk. [Prov. Eng.]

Switch, n. (Elec.) A device for shifting an electric current to another circuit, or for making and breaking a circuit.

Switchel
Switch´el, n. [See Sweet.] A beverage of molasses and water, seasoned with vinegar and ginger. [U. S.]

Switchy
Switch´y, a. Whisking. [Colloq.] Coombe.

Swithe, adv. [AS. swie strongly, violently.] Instantly; quickly; speedily; rapidly. [Obs.]
"That thou doest, do thou swithe." Wyclif (John xiii. 27).

Switzer
Switz´er, n. [Cf. G. schweizer. Cf. Swiss.] A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Swiss.

Swivel-eyed
Swiv´el-eyed, a. Squint- eyed. [Prov. Eng.]

Swizzle
Swiz´zle, v. t. To drink; to swill. Halliwell.

Swizzle
Swiz´zle, n. Ale and beer mixed; also drink generally. [Prov. Eng.]

Swob, n. & v. See Swab.

Swoln Contraction of Swollen, p. p. Milton.

Swooning
Swoon´ing, a. & n. from Swoon, v. — Swoon´ing•ly, adv.

Swoopstake
Swoop´stake, n. See Sweepstake. [Obs.]

Swoopstake
Swoop´stake, adv. Altogether; indiscriminately. [R.] Shak.

Swop, v. & n. Same as Swap. Dryden.

Sworded
Sword´ed, a. [Cf. AS. ge swurdod.] Girded with a sword. Milton.

Sworder
Sword´er, n. One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat. [Obs.] Shak.

Swordfish
Sword´fish, n.
1. (Zoöl.) (a) A very large oceanic fish ( Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long. (b) The gar pike. (c) The cutlass fish.
2. (Astron.) A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1. Swordfish sucker (Zoöl.), a remora ( Remora brachyptera) which attaches itself to the swordfish.

Swording
Sword´ing, n. Slashing with a sword. Tennyson.

Swordless
Sword´less, a. Destitute of a sword.

Swordman
Sword´man, n. ; pl. Swordmen . A swordsman. "Sinewy swordmen." Shak.

Swordplay
Sword´play, n. Fencing; a sword fight.

Swordplayer
Sword´play•er, n. A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.

Sword-shaped
Sword´-shaped, a. (Bot.) Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.

Swordsman
Swords´man, n. ; pl. Swordsmen .
1. A soldier; a fighting man.
2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.

Swordsmanship
Swords´man•ship, n. The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.

Swordtail
Sword´tail, n. (Zoöl.) (a) The limulus. (b) Any hemipterous insect of the genus Uroxiphus, found upon forest trees.

Swore, imp. of Swear.

Swum, imp. & p. p. of Swim.