SPage 693
- English Word Swimmingness Definition Act or state of swimming; suffusion.
- English Word Swinck Definition See Swink.
- English Word Swindle Definition To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
- English Word Swindle Definition The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
- English Word Swindled Definition of Swindle
- English Word Swindler Definition One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.
- English Word Swindlery Definition Swindling; rougery.
- English Word Swindling Definition of Swindle
- English Word Swine Definition Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog.
- English Word Swine-pox Definition A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox.
- English Word Swinebread Definition The truffle.
- English Word Swinecase Definition A hogsty.
- English Word Swinecote Definition A hogsty.
- English Word Swinecrue Definition A hogsty.
- English Word Swineery Definition Same as Piggery.
- English Word Swinefish Definition The wolf fish.
- English Word Swineherd Definition A keeper of swine.
- English Word Swinepipe Definition The European redwing.
- English Word Swinestone Definition See Stinkstone.
- English Word Swinesty Definition A sty, or pen, for swine.
- English Word Swing Definition To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
- English Word Swing Definition To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open.
- English Word Swing Definition To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See Swing, n., 3.
- English Word Swing Definition To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.
- English Word Swing Definition To be hanged.
- English Word Swing Definition To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.
- English Word Swing Definition To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business.
- English Word Swing Definition To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.
- English Word Swing Definition The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.
- English Word Swing Definition Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.