Swa
"River Swa" The River Swa is the river that forms the northern frontier of Ce Tydonn .
Swahon
"Swahon Wainhail" Swahon Wainhail is the Galeoth Earl of Kurigald , slain at the Fifth Battle of Mengedda .
Swahon Wainhail
Title(s): Earl of Kurigald
Lived: 4055 - 4111
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Galeoth
Gender: Male
Occupation: Earl of Kurigald
Books: The Warrior-Prophet
Swahon Wainhail
Title(s): Earl of Kurigald
Lived: 4055 - 4111
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Galeoth
Gender: Male
Occupation: Earl of Kurigald
Books: The Warrior-Prophet
Swahon Wainhail
Swahon Wainhail is the Galeoth Earl of Kurigald , slain at the Fifth Battle of Mengedda .
Swahon Wainhail
Title(s): Earl of Kurigald
Lived: 4055 - 4111
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Galeoth
Gender: Male
Occupation: Earl of Kurigald
Books: The Warrior-Prophet
Swahon Wainhail
Title(s): Earl of Kurigald
Lived: 4055 - 4111
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Galeoth
Gender: Male
Occupation: Earl of Kurigald
Books: The Warrior-Prophet
Swanostol
According to legend, the son of Nostol by Weyukat.
Swaranûl
Swaranûl is a hill located in Akirsuäl to the east of the Sea of Neleöst where according to the ancient High Norsirai , the Gods had come to the chieftains of their many tribes and granted them tenure for all the lands within a thousand leagues.
Swarjuka
Swarjuka is the Sapatishah-Governor of Jurisada .
Swarjuka
Title(s): Sapatishah-Governor
Lived: 4061 -
Race: Men
Nationality: Jurisadan
Gender: Male
Occupation: Sapatishah-Governor of Jurisada
Swarjuka
Title(s): Sapatishah-Governor
Lived: 4061 -
Race: Men
Nationality: Jurisadan
Gender: Male
Occupation: Sapatishah-Governor of Jurisada
Swayal
"Swayal Compact" The Swayal Compact is the first and only School for witches in Eärwa . It was founded following Anasûrimbor Kellhus ’ unification of the Three Seas into the New Empire . The school for female sorcerers is located in Iothiah , and its current Grandmistress is Anasûrimbor Serwa . After the Holy War , the ruins of the nonman mansion Illisserû were reoccupied by the witches of the Swayal Compact , who took it as their stronghold and headquarters, renaming it "Orovelai". The Swayal Witches accompany Anasûrimbor Kellhus’s Great Ordeal on its march to Golgotterath . When Kellhus declared the Breaking of the Great Ordeal at the Eleventh Council of Potentates, the Swayal Sisterhood was ordered to join the Men of the Middle-North under the command of Prince Anasûrimbor Kayûtas .
Known Members
- Anasûrimbor Serwa (Grandmistress)
- Gwanwë
- Herea
- Hûtta-mimot
- Kima
- Mipharal
- Mirûnwe
- Sapharal
- Valsarta
Swayal Compact
The Swayal Compact is the first and only School for witches in Eärwa . It was founded following Anasûrimbor Kellhus ’ unification of the Three Seas into the New Empire . The school for female sorcerers is located in Iothiah , and its current Grandmistress is Anasûrimbor Serwa . After the Holy War , the ruins of the nonman mansion Illisserû were reoccupied by the witches of the Swayal Compact , who took it as their stronghold and headquarters, renaming it "Orovelai". The Swayal Witches accompany Anasûrimbor Kellhus’s Great Ordeal on its march to Golgotterath . When Kellhus declared the Breaking of the Great Ordeal at the Eleventh Council of Potentates, the Swayal Sisterhood was ordered to join the Men of the Middle-North under the command of Prince Anasûrimbor Kayûtas .
Known Members
- Anasûrimbor Serwa (Grandmistress)
- Gwanwë
- Herea
- Hûtta-mimot
- Kima
- Mipharal
- Mirûnwe
- Sapharal
- Valsarta
Swazond
The ceremonial scars used by Scylvendi warriors to denote foes slain in battle, believed by some to be markers of stolen strength.
Sweki
"River Sweki" The River Sweki is the so-called “miracle river,” revered as holy by the Kianene , who claim that its waters arise from nothing by the will of the Solitary God . Before the first Jihads, Nansur cartographers made several attempts to locate its headwaters in the Great Salt , none of them successful. “Sweki” means “The Sacred” in Kianni.
Sword-Dancers
"Zeümi Sword-Dancers" Zeümi Sword-Dancers are the members of an exotic Zeümi Cult that worships the sword and has developed sword fighting to an almost supernatural level.
Sword-dancers
"Zeümi Sword-dancers" Zeümi Sword-Dancers are the members of an exotic Zeümi Cult that worships the sword and has developed sword fighting to an almost supernatural level.
swa
-so.
swab
-to clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship.
-a kind of mop for cleaning floors, the desks of vessels, etc., esp. one made of rope
-yarns or threads.
-a bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle, for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying medicaments to deep
-seated parts, etc.
-an epaulet.
-a cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.
-a sponge, or other suitable substance, attached to a long rod or handle, for cleaning the bore of a firearm.
swabbed
-of swab
swabber
-to swab.
-one who swabs a floor or desk.
-formerly, an interior officer on board of british ships of war, whose business it was to see that the ship was kept clean.
-same as swobber, 2.
swabbing
-of swab
swad
-a cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.
-a clown; a country bumpkin.
-a lump of mass; also, a crowd.
-a thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
swaddle
-anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band.
-to bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe;
-- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby.
-to beat; to cudgel.
swaddlebill
-the shoveler.
swaddled
-of swaddle
swaddler
-a term of contempt for an irish methodist.
swaddling
-of swaddle
-a. & n. from swaddle, v.
swag
-to hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing.
-to sink down by its weight; to sag.
-a swaying, irregular motion.
-a burglar's or thief's booty; boodle.
swag
-bellied
-having a prominent, overhanging belly.
swagbelly
-a prominent, overhanging belly.
-any large tumor developed in the abdomen, and neither fluctuating nor sonorous.
swage
-see assuage.
-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.
-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.
swaged
-of swage
swagged
-of swag
swagger
-to walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
-to boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
-to bully.
-the act or manner of a swaggerer.
swaggered
-of swagger
swaggerer
-one who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow.
swaggering
-of swagger
swagging
-of swag
swaggy
-inclined to swag; sinking, hanging, or leaning by its weight.
swaging
-of swage
swain
-a servant.
-a young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover;
-- chiefly in poetry.
swainish
-pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant.
swainling
-a little swain.
swainmote
-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.
swainship
-the condition of a swain.
swaip
-to walk proudly; to sweep along.
swal
-swelled.
swale
-a valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen.
-to melt and waste away; to singe. see sweal, v.
-a gutter in a candle.
swallet
-water breaking in upon the miners at their work;
-- so called among tin miners.
swallow
-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.
-any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common american chimney swallow, or swift.
-the aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
-to take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink.
-to draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb
-- usually followed by up.
-to receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.
-to engross; to appropriate;
-- usually with up.
-to occupy; to take up; to employ.
-to seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.
-to retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions.
-to put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.
-to perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow.
-the act of swallowing.
-the gullet, or esophagus; the throat.
-taste; relish; inclination; liking.
-capacity for swallowing; voracity.
-as much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water.
-that which ingulfs; a whirlpool.
swallow
-tailed
-having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow
-tailed coat.
-united by dovetailing; dovetailed.
swallowed
-of swallow
swallower
-one who swallows; also, a glutton.
swallowfish
-the european sapphirine gurnard (trigla hirundo). it has large pectoral fins.
swallowing
-of swallow
swallowtail
-a kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. see dovetail.
-a species of willow.
-an outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle;
-- so called from its form. called also priestcap.
-a swallow
-tailed coat.
-an arrow.
-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.
swallowwort
-see celandine.
-a poisonous plant (vincetoxicum officinale) of the milkweed family, at one time used in medicine;
-- also called white swallowwort.
swam
-imp. of swim.
-of swim
swamp
-wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
-to plunge or sink into a swamp.
-to cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
-fig.: to plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
-to sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.
-to become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.
swamped
-of swamp
swamping
-of swamp
swampy
-consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as, swampy land.
swan
-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.
-fig.: an appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace and melody; as shakespeare is called the swan of avon.
-the constellation cygnus.
swan's
-down
-alt. of swans
-down
swan
-hopping
-a corruption of swan
-upping.
swan
-upping
-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.
swang
-imp. of swing.
-a swamp.
-of swing
swanherd
-one who tends or marks swans; as, the royal swanherd of england.
swanimote
-see swainmote.
swank
-of swink
swankie
-alt. of swanky
swanky
-an active and clever young fellow.
swanlike
-resembling a swan.
swanmark
-a mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan.
swannery
-a place where swans are bred.
swanny
-swanlike; as, a swanny glossiness of the neck.
swanpan
-the chinese abacus; a schwanpan.
swans
-down
-the down, or fine, soft feathers, of the swan, used on various articles of dress.
-a fine, soft, thick cloth of wool mixed with silk or cotton; a sort of twilled fustian, like moleskin.
swanskin
-the act of a swan with the down or the feathers on.
-a species of soft flannel, thick and warm.
swap
-to strike;
-- with off.
-to exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop.
-to fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently.
-to beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
-a blow; a stroke.
-an exchange; a barter.
-hastily.
swape
-see sweep, n., 12.
swapped
-of swap
swapping
-of swap
sward
-skin; covering.
-the grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf.
-to produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward.
sward
-cutter
-a plow for turning up grass land.
-a lawn mower.
swarded
-of sward
-covered with sward.
swarding
-of sward
swardy
-covered with sward or grass.
sware
-imp. of swear.
-of swear
swarf
-to grow languid; to faint.
-the grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet.
swarm
-to climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. see shin.
-a large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.
-especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.
-hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.
-to collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body;
-- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
-to appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
-to be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.
-to abound; to be filled (with).
-to breed multitudes.
-to crowd or throng.
swarmed
-of swarm
swarming
-of swarm
swarmspore
-one of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algae and fungi; a zoospore.
-one of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan;
-- called also zoospore.
swart
-sward.
-of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
-gloomy; malignant.
-to make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part.
swartback
-the black
-backed gull (larus marinus);
-- called also swarbie.
swarth
-swart; swarthy.
-an apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.
-sward; short grass.
-see swath.
swarthily
-in a swarthy manner; with a tawny hue; duskily.
swarthiness
-the quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness.
swarthness
-swarthiness.
swarthy
-being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny; swart; as, swarthy faces.
-to make swarthy.
swartiness
-swarthiness.
swartish
-somewhat swart, dark, or tawny.
swartness
-the quality or state of being swart.
swarty
-swarthy; tawny.
swarve
-to swerve.
-to climb.
swash
-an oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
-soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.
-to dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.
-to fall violently or noisily.
-to bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.
-impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.
-a narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
-liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
-a blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.
-a swaggering fellow; a swasher.
swashbuckler
-a bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer.
swashed
-of swash
swasher
-one who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms.
swashing
-of swash
-swaggering; hectoring.
-resounding; crushing.
swashway
-same as 4th swash, 2.
swashy
-soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.
swat
-imp. of sweat.
-of sweat
swatch
-a swath.
-a piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth.
swate
-imp. of sweat.
swath
-a line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.
-the whole sweep of a scythe, or the whole breadth from which grass or grain is cut by a scythe or a machine, in mowing or cradling; as, to cut a wide swath.
-a band or fillet; a swathe.
swathe
-to bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers.
-a bandage; a band; a swath.
swathed
-of swathe
swather
-a device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.
swathing
-of swathe
swatte
-imp. of sweat.
sway
-to move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.
-to influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide.
-to cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion.
-to hoist; as, to sway up the yards.
-to be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
-to move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.
-to have weight or influence.
-to bear sway; to rule; to govern.
-the act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon.
-influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires.
-preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
-rule; dominion; control.
-a switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
sway
-backed
-having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness;
-- said of horses and other animals.
sway
-bracing
-the horizontal bracing of a bridge, which prevents its swaying.
swayed
-of sway
-bent down, and hollow in the back; sway
-backed;
-- said of a horse.
swayful
-able to sway.
swaying
-of sway
-an injury caused by violent strains or by overloading;
-- said of the backs of horses.
sweal
-to melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame.
-to singe; to scorch; to swale; as, to sweal a pig by singeing off the hair.
swealed
-of sweal
swealing
-of sweal
swear
-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.
-to give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-to declare or charge upon oath; as, he swore treason against his friend.
-to appeal to by an oath.
swearer
-one who swears; one who calls god to witness for the truth of his declaration.
-a profane person; one who uses profane language.
swearing
-of swear
-a. & n. from swear, v.
sweat
-of sweat
-to excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
-fig.: to perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
-to emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
-to cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
-to emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
-to unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
-to get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.
-the fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. see perspiration.
-the act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
-moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
-the sweating sickness.
-a short run by a race horse in exercise.
sweated
-of sweat
sweater
-one who sweats.
-one who, or that which, causes to sweat
-a sudorific.
-a woolen jacket or jersey worn by athletes.
-an employer who oppresses his workmen by paying low wages.
sweatily
-in a sweaty manner.
sweatiness
-quality or state of being sweaty.
sweating
-of sweat
-a. & n. from sweat, v.
sweaty
-moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment.
-consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat.
-causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult.
swede
-a native or inhabitant of sweden.
-a swedish turnip. see under turnip.
swedenborgian
-one who holds the doctrines of the new jerusalem church, as taught by emanuel swedenborg, a swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. he taught that the lord jesus christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the godhead, is the one only god, and that there is a spiritual sense to the scriptures, which he (swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw the correspondence between natural and spiritual things.
-of or pertaining to swedenborg or his views.
swedenborgianism
-the doctrines of the swedenborgians.
swedish
-of or pertaining to sweden or its inhabitants.
-the language of swedes.
sweeny
-an atrophy of the muscles of the shoulder in horses; also, atrophy of any muscle in horses.
sweep
-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.
-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.
-to brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
-to carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
-to strike with a long stroke.
-to draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net.
-to pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope.
-to clean rooms, yards, etc., or to clear away dust, dirt, litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like.
-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.
-to pass over anything comprehensively; to range through with rapidity; as, his eye sweeps through space.
-the act of sweeping.
-the compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
-the compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.
-the compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep.
-violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease.
-direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the sweep of a compass.
-direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the like, away from a rectlinear line.
-one who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney sweeper.
-a movable templet for making molds, in loam molding.
-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.
-a large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
-the almond furnace.
-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.
-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.
-the sweeping of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
sweep
-saw
-a bow
-saw.
sweepage
-the crop of hay got in a meadow.
sweeper
-one who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.
sweeping
-of sweep
-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.
sweepings
-things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.
sweepstake
-a winning of all the stakes or prizes.
-a complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep.
sweepstakes
-a winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.
-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.
-a race for all the sums staked or prizes offered.
sweepwasher
-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
-moving with a sweeping motion.
sweet
-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.
-pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
-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.
-pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
-fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water.
-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.
-plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
-that which is sweet to the taste;
-- used chiefly in the plural.
-confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc.
-home
-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.
-that which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume.
-that which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life.
-one who is dear to another; a darling;
-- a term of endearment.
-sweetly.
-to sweeten.
sweet
-breasted
-having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. cf. breast, n., 6.
sweet
-scented
-having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant.
sweet
-sop
-a kind of custard apple (anona squamosa). see under custard.
sweetbread
-either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. the sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. see pancreas, and thymus.
-the pancreas.
sweetbrier
-a kind of rose (rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. the small
-flowered sweetbrier is rosa micrantha.
sweeten
-to make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
-to make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
-to make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
-to make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.
-to soften to the eye; to make delicate.
-to make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
-to make warm and fertile;
-- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
-to restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
-to become sweet.
sweetened
-of sweeten
sweetener
-one who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.
sweetening
-of sweeten
-the act of making sweet.
-that which sweetens.
sweetheart
-a lover of mistress.
sweethearting
-making love.
sweeting
-a sweet apple.
-a darling;
-- a word of endearment.
sweetish
-somewhat sweet.
sweetly
-in a sweet manner.
sweetmeat
-fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.;
-- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
-the paint used in making patent leather.
-a boat shell (crepidula fornicata) of the american coast.
sweetness
-the quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
sweetroot
-licorice.
sweetwater
-a variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice;
-- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.
sweetweed
-a name for two tropical american weeds (capraria biflora, and scoparia dulcis) of the figwort family.
sweetwood
-the true laurel (laurus nobilis.)
-the timber of the tree oreodaphne leucoxylon, growing in jamaica. the name is also applied to the timber of several other related trees.
sweetwort
-any plant of a sweet taste.
sweigh
-sway; movement.
sweinmote
-see swainmote.
swell
-to grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.
-to increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish.
-to rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.
-to be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.
-to be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.
-to be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style.
-to protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.
-to be elated; to rise arrogantly.
-to grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.
-to become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount.
-to act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big.
-to increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population.
-to aggravate; to heighten.
-to raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness.
-to augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note.
-the act of swelling.
-gradual increase.
-increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance.
-increase in height; elevation; rise.
-increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound.
-increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
-a gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells.
-a wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor.
-a gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound; the crescendo and diminuendo combined;
-- generally indicated by the sign.
-a showy, dashing person; a dandy.
-having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood.
swelldom
-people of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
swelled
-of swell
-of swell
swellfish
-any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
swelling
-of swell
-the act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride.
-a protuberance; a prominence
-an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling.
swellish
-dandified; stylish.
swelltoad
-a swellfish.
swelt
-imp. of swell.
-to die; to perish.
-to faint; to swoon.
-to overpower, as with heat; to cause to faint; to swelter.
swelter
-to be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat.
-to welter; to soak.
-to oppress with heat.
-to exude, like sweat.
sweltered
-of swelter
sweltering
-of swelter
sweltry
-suffocating with heat; oppressively hot; sultry.
swelve
-to swallow.
swept
-of sweep
-imp. & p. p. of sweep.
swerd
-see sward, n. & v.
-sword.
swerve
-to stray; to wander; to rope.
-to go out of a straight line; to deflect.
-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.
-to bend; to incline.
-to climb or move upward by winding or turning.
-to turn aside.
swerved
-of swerve
swerving
-of swerve
sweven
-a vision seen in sleep; a dream.
swich
-such.
swietenia
-a genus of meliaceous trees consisting of one species (sweitenia mahogoni), the mahogany tree.
swift
-moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt.
-of short continuance; passing away quickly.
-swiftly.
-the current of a stream.
-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.
-any one of several species of lizards, as the pine lizard.
-the ghost moth. see under ghost.
-a reel, or turning instrument, for winding yarn, thread, etc.;
-- used chiefly in the plural.
-the main card cylinder of a flax
-carding machine.
swifter
-a rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it.
-a rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides.
-the forward shroud of a lower mast.
-to tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer.
swiftfoot
-nimble; fleet.
-the courser.
swiftlet
-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.
swiftly
-in a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.
swiftness
-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
-to drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider.
-to suck.
-a long draught.
-a tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
-a beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc.
-to castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off.
-to pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.
swill
-to wash; to drench.
-to drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily.
-to inebriate; to fill with drink.
-to drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess.
-the wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash;
-- called also swillings.
-large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.
swilled
-of swill
swiller
-one who swills.
swilling
-of swill
swillings
-see swill, n., 1.
swim
-to be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.
-to move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
-to be overflowed or drenched.
-fig.: to be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
-to be filled with swimming animals.
-to pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a stream.
-to cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river.
-to immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.
-the act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming.
-the sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
-a part of a stream much frequented by fish.
-to be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims.
swimbel
-a moaning or sighing sound or noise; a sough.
swimmer
-one who swims.
-a protuberance on the leg of a horse.
-a swimming bird; one of the natatores.
swimmeret
-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
-of swim
-that swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.
-suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes.
-the act of one who swims.
-being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.
-vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head.
swimmingly
-in an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously.
swimmingness
-act or state of swimming; suffusion.
swinck
-see swink.
swindle
-to cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
-the act or process of swindling; a cheat.
swindled
-of swindle
swindler
-one who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.
swindlery
-swindling; rougery.
swindling
-of swindle
swine
-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.
swine
-pox
-a variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox.
swinebread
-the truffle.
swinecase
-a hogsty.
swinecote
-a hogsty.
swinecrue
-a hogsty.
swineery
-same as piggery.
swinefish
-the wolf fish.
swineherd
-a keeper of swine.
swinepipe
-the european redwing.
swinestone
-see stinkstone.
swinesty
-a sty, or pen, for swine.
swing
-to move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
-to sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open.
-to use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. see swing, n., 3.
-to turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.
-to be hanged.
-to cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.
-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.
-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.
-the act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.
-swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.
-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.
-influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.
-capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
-free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.
swingdevil
-the european swift.
swinge
-see singe.
-to beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish.
-to move as a lash; to lash.
-the sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing.
-power; sway; influence.
swingebuckler
-a swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer.
swinged
-of swinge
swingeing
-of swinge
-huge; very large.
swingel
-the swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.
swinger
-one who swings or whirls.
-one who swinges.
-anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.
-a person who engages frequently in lively and fashionable pursuits, such as attending night clubs or discos.
-a person who engages freely in sexual intercourse.
swinging
-of swing
swingle
-to dangle; to wave hanging.
-to swing for pleasure.
-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.
-to beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots;
-- said of weeds.
-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
-a swingletree.
swingled
-of swingle
swingletail
-the thrasher, or fox shark. see thrasher.
swingletree
-a whiffletree, or whippletree. see singletree.
swingling
-of swingle
-a. & n. from swingle, v. t.
swingtree
-the bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened; the whiffletree.
swinish
-of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot.
swink
-to labor; to toil; to salve.
-to cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.
-to acquire by labor.
-labor; toil; drudgery.
swinker
-a laborer.
swinking
-of swink
swinney
-see sweeny.
swipe
-a swape or sweep. see sweep.
-a strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
-poor, weak beer; small beer.
-to give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping motion, as a ball.
-to pluck; to snatch; to steal.
swiped
-of swipe
swiping
-of swipe
swiple
-that part of a flail which strikes the grain in thrashing; a swingel.
swipper
-nimble; quick.
swirl
-to whirl, or cause to whirl, as in an eddy.
-a whirling motion; an eddy, as of water; a whirl.
swirled
-of swirl
swirling
-of swirl
swish
-to flourish, so as to make the sound swish.
-to flog; to lash.
-to dash; to swash.
-a sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air.
-light driven spray.
swiss
-a native or inhabitant of switzerland; a switzer; the people of switzerland.
-of or pertaining to switzerland, or the people of switzerland.
switch
-a small, flexible twig or rod.
-a movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.
-a separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.
-a mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.
-to strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.
-to swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.
-to trim, as, a hedge.
-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.
-to shift to another circuit.
-to walk with a jerk.
switched
-of switch
switchel
-a beverage of molasses and water, seasoned with vinegar and ginger.
switching
-of switch
-a. & n. from switch, v.
switchman
-one who tends a switch on a railway.
switchmen
-of switchman
switchy
-whisking.
swithe
-instantly; quickly; speedily; rapidly.
switzer
-a native or inhabitant of switzerland; a swiss.
swive
-to copulate with (a woman).
swivel
-a piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.
-a small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel;
-- called also swivel gun.
-to swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.
swivel
-eyed
-squint
-eyed.
swizzle
-to drink; to swill.
-ale and beer mixed; also, drink generally.
swob
-see swab.
swobber
-see swabber.
-four privileged cards, formerly used in betting at the game of whist.
swollen
-of swell
-p. p. of swell.
-enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.
swoln
-contraction of swollen, p. p.
swom
-imp. of swim.
swonk
-of swink
swonken
-of swink
swoon
-to sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint;
-- often with away.
-a fainting fit; syncope.
swooned
-of swoon
swooning
-of swoon
-a. & n. from swoon, v.
swoop
-to fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
-to seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
-to descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop.
-to pass with pomp; to sweep.
-a falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.
swooped
-of swoop
swooping
-of swoop
swoopstake
-see sweepstake.
-altogether; indiscriminately.
swop
-same as swap.
sword
-an offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. it is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.
-hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.
-destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.
-the military power of a country.
-one of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
sword
-shaped
-shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the iris, cattail, and the like.
swordbill
-a humming bird (docimastes ensiferus) having a very long, slender bill, exceeding the length of the body of the bird.
sworded
-girded with a sword.
sworder
-one who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat.
swordfish
-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.
-the gar pike.
-the cutlass fish.
-a southern constellation. see dorado, 1.
swordick
-the spotted gunnel (muraenoides gunnellus).
swording
-slashing with a sword.
swordless
-destitute of a sword.
swordman
-a swordsman.
swordmen
-of swordman
swordplay
-fencing; a sword fight.
swordplayer
-a fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.
swordsman
-a soldier; a fighting man.
-one skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
swordsmanship
-the state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword.
swordsmen
-of swordsman
swordtail
-the limulus.
-any hemipterous insect of the genus uroxiphus, found upon forest trees.
swore
-of swear
-imp. of swear.
sworn
-of swear
-p. p. of swear.
swough
-a sound; a groan; a moan; a sough.
-a swoon.
swound
-see swoon, v. & n.
swown
-swoon.
swum
-of swim
-of swim
-imp. & p. p. of swim.
swung
-of swing
-imp. & p. p. of swing.
swythe
-quickly. see swithe.