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  • English Word Swill Definition The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings.
  • English Word Swill Definition Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.
  • English Word Swilled Definition of Swill
  • English Word Swiller Definition One who swills.
  • English Word Swilling Definition of Swill
  • English Word Swillings Definition See Swill, n., 1.
  • English Word Swim Definition 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.
  • English Word Swim Definition To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
  • English Word Swim Definition To be overflowed or drenched.
  • English Word Swim Definition Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
  • English Word Swim Definition To be filled with swimming animals.
  • English Word Swim Definition To pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a stream.
  • English Word Swim Definition To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river.
  • English Word Swim Definition To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.
  • English Word Swim Definition The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming.
  • English Word Swim Definition The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
  • English Word Swim Definition A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
  • English Word Swim Definition To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims.
  • English Word Swimbel Definition A moaning or sighing sound or noise; a sough.
  • English Word Swimmer Definition One who swims.
  • English Word Swimmer Definition A protuberance on the leg of a horse.
  • English Word Swimmer Definition A swimming bird; one of the natatores.
  • English Word Swimmeret Definition 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.
  • English Word Swimming Definition of Swim
  • English Word Swimming Definition That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.
  • English Word Swimming Definition Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes.
  • English Word Swimming Definition The act of one who swims.
  • English Word Swimming Definition Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.
  • English Word Swimming Definition Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head.
  • English Word Swimmingly Definition In an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously.