Swans-down (n.) A fine, soft, thick cloth of wool mixed with silk or cotton; a sort of twilled fustian, like moleskin.
Swanskin (n.) The act of a swan with the down or the feathers on.
Swanskin (n.) A species of soft flannel, thick and warm.
Swan-upping (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.
Swapped (imp. & p. p.) of Swap
Swapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swap
Swap (v. i.) To strike; -- with off.
Swap (v. i.) To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop.
Swap (v. t.) To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently.
Swap (v. t.) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
Swap (n.) A blow; a stroke.
Swap (n.) An exchange; a barter.
Swap (n.) Hastily.
Swape (n.) See Sweep, n., 12.
Sward (n.) Skin; covering.
Sward (n.) The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf.
Swarded (imp. & p. p.) of Sward
Swarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sward
Sward (v. t. & i.) To produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward.
Sward-cutter (n.) A plow for turning up grass land.
Sward-cutter (n.) A lawn mower.
Swarded (a.) Covered with sward.
Swardy (a.) Covered with sward or grass.
Sware () imp. of Swear.
Swarf (v. i.) To grow languid; to faint.
Swarf (n.) The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet.
Swarm (v. i.) To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.
Swarm (n.) A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.
Swarm (n.) 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.
Swarm (n.) Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.
Swarmed (imp. & p. p.) of Swarm
Swarming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swarm
Swarm (v. i.) To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
Swarm (v. i.) To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
Swarm (v. i.) To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.
Swarm (v. i.) To abound; to be filled (with).
Swarm (v. i.) To breed multitudes.
Swarm (v. t.) To crowd or throng.
Swarmspore (n.) One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algae and fungi; a zoospore.
Swarmspore (n.) One of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; -- called also zoospore.
Swart (n.) Sward.
Swart (a.) Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
Swart (a.) Gloomy; malignant.
Swart (v. t.) To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part.
Swartback (n.) The black-backed gull (Larus marinus); -- called also swarbie.
Swarth (a.) Swart; swarthy.
Swarth (n.) An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.
Swarth (n.) Sward; short grass.
Swarth (n.) See Swath.
Swarthily (adv.) In a swarthy manner; with a tawny hue; duskily.
Swarthiness (n.) The quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness.
Swarthness (n.) Swarthiness.
Swarthy (a.) Being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny; swart; as, swarthy faces.
Swarthy (v. t.) To make swarthy.
Swartiness (n.) Swarthiness.
Swartish (a.) Somewhat swart, dark, or tawny.
Swartness (n.) The quality or state of being swart.
Swarty (a.) Swarthy; tawny.
Swarve (v. i.) To swerve.
Swarve (v. i.) To climb.
Swash (v. t.) An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
Swash (v. t.) Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.
Swashed (imp. & p. p.) of Swash
Swashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swash
Swash (v. i.) To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.
Swash (v. i.) To fall violently or noisily.
Swash (v. i.) To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.
Swash (n.) Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.
Swash (n.) 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.
Swash (n.) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
Swash (n.) A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.
Swash (n.) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
Swashbuckler (n.) A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer.
Swasher (n.) One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms.
Swashing (a.) Swaggering; hectoring.
Swashing (a.) Resounding; crushing.
Swashway (n.) Same as 4th Swash, 2.
Swashy (a.) Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.
Swat () imp. of Sweat.
Swatch (n.) A swath.
Swatch (n.) A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth.
Swate () imp. of Sweat.
Swath (v. t.) A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.
Swath (v. t.) 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.
Swath (v. t.) A band or fillet; a swathe.
Swathed (imp. & p. p.) of Swathe
Swathing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swathe
Swathe (n.) To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers.
Swathe (n.) A bandage; a band; a swath.
Swather (n.) A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.
Swatte () imp. of Sweat.
Swayed (imp. & p. p.) of Sway
Swaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sway
Sway (v. i.) To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.
Sway (v. i.) To influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide.
Sway (v. i.) 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.
Sway (v. i.) To hoist; as, to sway up the yards.
Sway (v. i.) To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
Sway (v. i.) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.
Sway (v. i.) To have weight or influence.