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Swill

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Swill (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Swilled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Swilling.] [OE. swilen to wash, AS. swilian.] 1. To wash; to drench.

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.