SWALLET
SWAL'LET, noun [See Well.] Among the tin miners, water breaking in upon the miners at their work.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SWALLOW
SWAL'LOW, noun A bird of the genus Hirundo, of many species, among which are the chimney swallow and the martin.
SWALLOW-FISH
SWAL'LOW-FISH, noun A sea fish of the genus Trigla, called in Cornwall, tub-fish; remarkable for the size of its gill-fins. It is called also the sapphirine gurnard.
SWALLOW-FLY
SWAL'LOW-FLY, noun The name of the chelidonius, a fly remarkable for its swift and long flight.
SWALLOW-STONE
SWAL'LOW-STONE, noun Chelidonius lapis, a stone which Pliny and other authors affirm to be found in the stomachs of young swallows.
SWALLOW-TAIL
SWAL'LOW-TAIL, noun A plant, a species of willow.
SWALLOW-WORT
SWAL'LOW-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Asclepias; hirundinaria. It grows in the southern part of Europe, and is said to have been successfully used as a medicine, chiefly in d...
SWALLOWED
SWAL'LOWED, participle passive Taken into the stomach; absorbed; received without scruple; engrossed; wasted; exhausted.
SWALLOWER
SWAL'LOWER, noun One who swallows; also, a glutton.
SWALLOWING
SWAL'LOWING, participle present tense Taking into the stomach; absorbing; ingulfing; receiving implicitly; engrossing; wasting; exhausting.SWAL'LOWING, noun The act of taking in...
SWALLOWS-TAIL
SWAL'LOW'S-TAIL, noun In joinery and carpentry, the same as dove-tail.
SWAM
SWAM, preterit tense of swim.
SWAMP
SWAMP, noun Spungy land; low ground filled with water; soft wet ground. In New England, I believe this word is never applied to marsh, or the boggy land made by the overflowing ...
SWAMP-ORE
SWAMP-ORE, noun In mineralogy, an ore of iron found in swamps and morasses; called also bog-ore, or indurated bog iron ore. Its color is a dark yellowish brown or gray; its frac...
SWAMPY
SWAMP'Y, adjective Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet and spungy; as swampy land.
SWAN
SWAN, noun A large aquatic fowl of the genus Anas, of two varieties, the wild and the tame. The plumage is of a pure white color, and its long arching neck gives it a noble appe...
SWANG
SWANG, noun A piece of low land or green sward, liable to be covered with water. [Local in England.]
SWANIMOTE
SWAN'IMOTE, noun [swain and mote, meeting.] In England, a court held before the verderors of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year; the swains or ...
SWANSDOWN
SWANSDOWN, noun A fine soft thick woolen cloth.
SWANSKIN
SWAN'SKIN, noun [swan and skin.] A species of flannel of a soft texture, thick and warm.
SWAP
SWAP, adverb Hastily; at a snatch. [A low word and local.]SWAP, verb transitive To exchange; to barter; to swop. [See Swop.] [This word is not elegant, but common in colloquial ...
SWAPE
SWAPE, noun A pole supported by a fulcrum on which it turns, used for raising water from a well, for churning, etc. [This Bailey spells swipe, and in noun England it is pronounc...
SWARD
SWARD, noun1. The skin of bacon. [Local.]2. The grassy surface of land; turf; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, forming a kind of mat. When covered ...
SWARDY
SWARD'Y, adjective Covered with sward or grass; as swardy land.
SWARE
SWARE, old preterit tense of swear. We now use swore.SWARE
SWARM
SWARM, noun sworm. [Latin ferveo, and boiling is very expressive of the motions of a swarm of bees. See the Verb.]1. In a general sense, a large number or body of small animals ...
SWART
SWART, swort