Webster's Dictionary 1828

6373

SWINDLED

SWIN'DLED, participle passive Grossly cheated and defrauded.

6374

SWINDLER

SWIN'DLER, noun A cheat; a rogue; one who defrauds grossly, or one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice.

6375

SWINE

SWINE, noun sing. and plural A hog, a quadruped of the genus Sus, which furnishes man with a large portion of his most nourishing food. The fat or lard of this animal enters int...

6376

SWINE-BREAD

SWI'NE-BREAD, noun A kind of plant, truffle.

6377

SWINE-CASE

SWI'NE-CASESWI'NE-COATSWI'NE-CRUE, noun A hog sty; a pen for swine. [Local.]

6378

SWINE-COAT

SWI'NE-COAT

6379

SWINE-CRUE

SWI'NE-CRUE, n. A hog sty; a pen for swine. [Local.]

6380

SWINE-GRASS

SWI'NE-GRASS, noun [Latin centinodia, knot grass.] A plant.

6381

SWINE-OAT

SWI'NE-OAT, noun [swine and oat.] A kind of oats, cultivated for the use of pigs, as in Cornwall; the Avena nuda of botanists.

6382

SWINE-PIPE

SWI'NE-PIPE, noun [swine and pipe.] A bird, the red-wing. [Local.]

6383

SWINE-POCKS

SWI'NE-POCKSSWI'NE-POX, noun The chicken-pocks. A variety of the chicken-pocks, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox.

6384

SWINE-POX

SWI'NE-POX, n. The chicken-pocks. A variety of the chicken-pocks, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox.

6385

SWINE-STONE

SWI'NE-STONE, noun [swine and stone.] A name given to those kinds oflimestone which, when rubbeD, emit a fetid odor, resembling that of naphtha combined with sulphurated hydrogen.

6386

SWINE-STY

SWI'NE-STY, noun A sty or pen for swine.

6387

SWINE-THISTLE

SWI'NE-THISTLE, noun A plant, the sow thistle.

6388

SWINEHERD

SWI'NEHERD, noun [swine and herd.] A keeper of swing.

6389

SWINES-CRESS

SWI'NE'S-CRESS, noun A species of cress, of the genus Cochlearia.

6390

SWING

SWING, verb intransitivepreterit tense and participle passive swung.1. To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate.I tried if a pendulum would swing ...

6391

SWING-WHEEL

SWING'-WHEEL, noun [swing and wheel.] In a time piece, the wheel which drives the pendulum. In a watch, or balance clock, it is called the crown-wheel.

6392

SWINGE

SWINGE, verb transitive swinj.1. To beat soundly; to whip; to bastinade; to chastise; to punish.You swing'd me for my love.--And swings his own vices in his son.2. To move as a ...

6393

SWINGE-BUCKLER

SWINGE-BUCKLER, noun swingj-buckler. A bully; one who pretends to feats of arms. [Not in use.]

6394

SWINGER

SWING'ER, noun One who swings; one who hurls.

6395

SWINGING

SWING'ING, participle present tense of swing. Waving; vibrating; brandishing.SWING'ING, noun The act of swinging; an exercise for health or pleasure.SWING'ING, participle presen...

6396

SWINGINGLY

SWING'INGLY, adverb Vastly; hugely. [Vulgar.]

6397

SWINGLE

SWIN'GLE, verb intransitive [from swing.] To dangle; to wave hanging.1. To swing for pleasure. [Not in use.]SWIN'GLE, verb transitive To beat; to clean flax by beating it with a...

6398

SWINGLE-TREE

SWIN'GLE-TREE, noun A whiffle-tree or whipple-tree.

6399

SWINGLED

SWIN'GLED, participle passive Beat and cleaned by a swingling knife.