Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 204
Swaddled (imp. & p. p.) of Swaddle.
Swaddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swaddle.
Swaddle (v. t.) To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby.
They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces of linen. -- Addison.
Swaddle (v. t.) To beat; to cudgel. [Obs.] -- Hudibras.
Swaddle (v.) Wrap in swaddling clothes; "swaddled the infant" [syn: swaddle, swathe].
Swaddlebill (n.) (Zool.) The shoveler. [Local, U.S.]
Swaddler (n.) A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. -- Shipley.
Swaddling () a. & n. from Swaddle, v.
Swaddling band, Swaddling cloth, or Swaddling clout, A band or cloth wrapped round an infant, especially round a newborn infant.
Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. -- Luke ii. 12.
Swagged (imp. & p. p.) of Swag.
Swagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swag.
Swag (v. i.) To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing. [Prov. Eng.]
Swag (v. i.) To sink down by its weight; to sag. -- Sir H. Wotton.
I swag as a fat person's belly swaggeth as he goeth. -- Palsgrave.
Swag (v. i.) To tramp carrying a swag. [Australia]
Swag (n.) A swaying, irregular motion.
Swag (n.) A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle. [Cant or Slang] -- Charles Reade.
Swag (n.) [Australia] (a) A tramping bushman's luggage, rolled up either in canvas or in a blanket so as to form a long bundle, and carried on the back or over the shoulder; -- called also a bluey, or a drum.
Swag (n.) (b) Any bundle of luggage similarly rolled up; hence, luggage in general.
He tramped for years till the swag he bore seemed part of himself. -- Lawson.
Swag (n.) Valuable goods.
Swag (n.) Goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money].
Swag (n.) A bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman.
Swag (v.) Droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness [syn: sag, droop, swag, flag].
Swag (v.) Walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room" [syn: stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen].
Swag (v.) Sway heavily or unsteadily.
SWAG, () Scientific (or Silly) Wild Ass Guess. A term used by technical teams when establishing high level sizings for large projects. (2000-08-09)
Swag-bellied (a.) Having a prominent, overhanging belly. -- Shak.
Swagbelly (n.) A prominent, overhanging belly. -- Smollett.
Swagbelly (n.) (Med.) Any large tumor developed in the abdomen, and neither fluctuating nor sonorous. -- Dunglison.
Swaged (imp. & p. p.) of Swage.
Swaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swage.
Swage (v. t. & i.) See Assuage. [Obs.]
Swage (n.) A tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge.
Swage block, A perforated block of iron, having grooved sides and adapted for use in heading bolts and swaging objects of large size.
Swage (v. t.) To shape by means of a swage; to fashion, as a piece of iron, by forcing it into a groove or mold having the required shape.
Swage (n.) A tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging [syn: upset, swage].
Swage (v.) Form metals with a swage [syn: swage, upset].
Swagger (n.) A swagman. [Australia]
Swagman (n.) A bushman carrying a swag and traveling on foot; -- called also swagsman, swagger, and swaggie.
Once a jolly swagman sat beside a billabong Under the shade of a coolibah tree.
And he sang as he sat and watched his billy boiling, `Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?' -- [Waltzing Matilda, an Australian tune.]
Swaggered (imp. & p. p.) of Swagger.
Swaggering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swagger.
Swagger (v. i.) To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
A man who swaggers about London clubs. -- Beaconsfield.
Swagger (v. i.) To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
What a pleasant it is . . . to swagger at the bar! -- Arbuthnot.
To be great is not . . . to swagger at our footmen. -- Colier.
Swagger (v. t.) To bully. [R.] -- Swift.
Swagger (n.) The act or manner of a swaggerer.
He gave a half swagger, half leer, as he stepped forth to receive us. -- W. Irving.
Swagger (a.) (British informal) Very chic; "groovy clothes" [syn: groovy, swagger].
Swagger (n.) An itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work [syn: swagman, swagger, swaggie].
Swagger (n.) A proud stiff pompous gait [syn: strut, prance, swagger].
Swagger (v.) To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house" [syn: tittup, swagger, ruffle, prance, strut, sashay, cock].
Swagger (v.) Discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate [syn: browbeat, bully, swagger].
Swagger (v.) Act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner [syn: swagger, bluster, swash].
Swaggerer (n.) One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow. -- Shak.
Swaggerer (n.) Someone who walks in an arrogant manner.
Swaggy (a.) Inclined to swag; sinking, hanging, or leaning by its weight. -- Sir T. Browne.
Swain (n.) A servant. [Obs.]
Him behoves serve himself that has no swain. -- Chaucer.
Swain (n.) A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry.
It were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. -- Shak.
Blest swains! whose nymphs in every grace excel. -- Pope.
Swain (n.) A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman; "if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked" [syn: boyfriend, fellow, beau, swain, young man].
Swain -- U.S. County in North Carolina
Population (2000): 12968
Housing Units (2000): 7105
Land area (2000): 528.100785 sq. miles (1367.774696 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 12.543112 sq. miles (32.486509 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 540.643897 sq. miles (1400.261205 sq. km)
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.421822 N, 83.446528 W
Headwords:
Swain
Swain, NC
Swain County
Swain County, NC
Swainish (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant. "An ungentle and swainish beast." -- Milton. -- Swain"ish*ness, n. -- Emerson.
Swainling (n.) A little swain. [R.]
Swainmote (n.) (Eng. Forest Law) A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury. [Written also swanimote, and sweinmote.] -- Blackstone.
Swainship (n.) The condition of a swain.
Swaip (v. i.) To walk proudly; to sweep along. [Prov. Eng.] -- Todd.
Swal (obs. imp. of Swell.) Swelled. -- Chaucer.
Swale (n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]
Swale (v. i. & t.) To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v.
Swale (n.) A gutter in a candle. [Prov. Eng.]
Sweal (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Swealed; p. pr. & vb. n. Swealing.] To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame. [Written also swale.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Swale (n.) A low area (especially a marshy area between ridges).
Swallet (n.) Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; -- so called among tin miners. [Prov. Eng.]
Swallow (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight.
Note: The most common North American species are the barn swallow (see under Barn), the cliff, or eaves, swallow (see under Cliff), the white-bellied, or tree, swallow ({Tachycineta bicolor), and the bank swallow (see under Bank). The common European swallow ({Chelidon rustica), and the window swallow, or martin ({Chelidon urbica), are familiar species.
Swallow (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.
Swallow (n.) (Naut.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Swallow plover (Zool.), Any one of several species of fork-tailed ploverlike birds of the genus Glareola, as Glareola orientalis of India; a pratincole.
Swallow shrike (Zool.), Any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic birds of the family Artamiidae, allied to the shrikes but similar to swallows in appearance and habits. The ashy swallow shrike ({Artamus fuscus) is common in India.
Swallow warbler (Zool.), Any one of numerous species of East Indian and Australian singing birds of the genus Dicaeum. They are allied to the honeysuckers.
Swallowed (imp. & p. p.) of Swallow.
Swallowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swallow.
Swallow (v. t.) To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink.
As if I had swallowed snowballs for pills. -- Shak.
Swallow (v. t.) To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up. -- Milton.
The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses. -- Num. xvi. 32.
Swallow (v. t.) To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.
Though that story . . . be not so readily swallowed. -- Sir T. Browne.
Swallow (v. t.) To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.
Homer excels . . . in this, that he swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him. -- Pope.
Swallow (v. t.) To occupy; to take up; to employ.
The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time. -- Locke.
Swallow (v. t.) To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.
Corruption swallowed what the liberal hand Of bounty scattered. -- Thomson.
Swallow (v. t.) To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions. "Swallowed his vows whole." -- Shak.
Swallow (v. t.) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.
Syn: To absorb; imbibe; ingulf; engross; consume. See Absorb.
Swallow (v. i.) To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow.
Swallow (n.) The act of swallowing.
Swallow (n.) The gullet, or esophagus; the throat.
Swallow (n.) Taste; relish; inclination; liking. [Colloq.]
I have no swallow for it. -- Massinger.
Swallow (n.) Capacity for swallowing; voracity.
There being nothing too gross for the swallow of political rancor. -- Prof. Wilson.
Swallow (n.) As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water.
Swallow (n.) That which ingulfs; a whirlpool. [Obs.] -- Fabyan.
Swallow (n.) A small amount of liquid food; "a sup of ale" [syn: swallow, sup].
Swallow (n.) The act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips" [syn: swallow, drink, deglutition].
Swallow (n.) Small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations.
Swallow (v.) Pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!" [syn: swallow, get down].
Swallow (v.) Engulf and destroy; "The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries."
Swallow (v.) Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" [syn: immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up].
Swallow (v.) Utter indistinctly; "She swallowed the last words of her speech."
Swallow (v.) Take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words" [syn: swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw].
Swallow (v.) Keep from expressing; "I swallowed my anger and kept quiet."
Swallow (v.) Tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies" [syn: accept, live with, swallow].
Swallow (v.) Believe or accept without questioning or challenge; "Am I supposed to swallow that story?"
Swallow (1.) Heb. sis (Isa. 38:14; Jer. 8:7), the Arabic for the swift, which "is a regular migrant, returning in myriads every spring, and so suddenly that while one day not a swift can be seen in the country, on the next they have overspread the whole land, and fill the air with their shrill cry." The swift (cypselus) is ordinarily classed with the swallow, which it resembles in its flight, habits, and migration.
Swallow (2.) Heb. deror, i.e., "the bird of freedom" (Ps. 84:3; Prov. 26:2), properly rendered swallow, distinguished for its swiftness of flight, its love of freedom, and the impossibility of retaining it in captivity. In Isa. 38:14 and Jer. 8:7 the word thus rendered ('augr) properly means "crane" (as in the R.V.).
Swallower (n.) One who swallows; also, a glutton. -- Tatler.
Swallowfish (n.) (Zool.) He European sapphirine gurnard ({Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.
Compare: Priestcap
Priestcap (n.) (Fort.) A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail.
Swallowtail (n.) (Carp.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
Swallowtail (n.) (Bot.) A species of willow.
Swallowtail (n.) (Fort.) An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also priestcap.
Swallowtail (n.) A swallow-tailed coat.
This Stultz coat, a blue swallowtail, with yellow buttons. -- Thackeray.
Swallowtail (n.) An arrow. -- Sir W. Scott.
Swallowtail (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of large and handsome butterflies, belonging to Papilio and allied genera, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe.
Note: The black swallowtail, or asterias (see Papilio), the blue swallowtail, or philenor, the tiger swallowtail, or turnus (see Turnus), and the zebra swallowtail, or ajax (see under Zebra) are common American species. See also Troilus.
Swallowtail (n.) A man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back [syn: swallow-tailed coat, swallowtail, morning coat].
Swallow-tailed (a.) Having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow-tailed coat.
Swallow-tailed (a.) (Carp.) United by dovetailing; dovetailed.
Swallow-tailed duck (Zool.), the old squaw.
Swallow-tailed gull (Zool.), An Arctic gull ({Xema furcata), which has a deeply forked tail.
Swallow-tailed hawk or Swallow-tailed kite (Zool.), The fork-tailed kite.
Swallow-tailed moth (Zool.), A European moth ({Urapteryx sambucaria) having tail-like lobes on the hind wings.
Swallow-tailed (a.) (Especially of butterflies and birds) having a forked tail like that of a swallow
Swallowwort (n.) (Bot.) See Celandine.
Swallowwort (n.) (Bot.) A poisonous plant ({Vincetoxicum officinale) of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort.
African swallowwort, A plant of the genus Stapelia.
Compare: Celandine
Celandine (n.) (Bot.) A perennial herbaceous plant ({Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort.
Lasser+celandine,+the+pilewort+({Ranunculus+Ficaria">Lasser celandine, the pilewort ({Ranunculus Ficaria).
Swallowwort (n.) Tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics [syn: blood flower, swallowwort, Asclepias curassavica].
Swallowwort (n.) Perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers [syn: celandine, greater celandine, swallowwort, swallow wort, Chelidonium majus].
Swim (v. i.) [imp. Swamor Swum; p. p. Swum; p. pr. & vb. n. Swimming.] 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.
Swim (v. i.) To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point. -- Shak.
Swim (v. i.) To be overflowed or drenched. -- Ps. vi. 6.
Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim. -- Thomson.
Swim (v. i.) Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
[They] now swim in joy. -- Milton.
Swim (v. i.) To be filled with swimming animals. [Obs.]
[Streams] that swim full of small fishes. -- Chaucer.
Swam () imp. of Swim.
Swamp (n.) Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
Swamped (imp. & p. p.) of Swamp.
Swamping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swamp.
Swamp (v. t.) To plunge or sink into a swamp.
Swamp (v. t.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
Swamp (v. t.) Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
Swamp (v. i.) To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.
Swamp (v. i.) To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.
Swamp (n.) -- Swamp (a.) : Land that is always wet and often partly covered with water.
Swamp (n.) A wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water; especially : One dominated by woody vegetation.
Swamp (n.) A tract of swamp.
Swamp (n.) A difficult or troublesome situation or subject.
Swamp (n.) Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
Gray swamps and pools, Waste places of the hern. -- Tennyson.
A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only herbage, plants, and mosses. -- Farming Encyc. (E. Edwards, Words).
Swamp blackbird. (Zool.) See Redwing (b) .
Swamp cabbage (Bot.), Skunk cabbage.
Swamp+deer+(Zool.),+An+Asiatic+deer+({Rucervus+Duvaucelli">Swamp deer (Zool.), an Asiatic deer ({Rucervus Duvaucelli) of India.
Swamp hen. (Zool.) (a) An Australian azure-breasted bird ({Porphyrio bellus); -- called also goollema.
Swamp hen. (Zool.) (b) An Australian water crake, or rail ({Porzana Tabuensis); -- called also little swamp hen.
Swamp hen. (Zool.) (c) The European purple gallinule.
Swamp honeysuckle (Bot.), An American shrub ({Azalea viscosa syn. Rhododendron viscosa or Rhododendron viscosum) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with rose; -- called also swamp pink and white swamp honeysuckle.
Swamp hook, A hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling logs. Cf. Cant hook.
Swamp itch. (Med.) See Prairie itch, under Prairie.
Swamp+laurel+(Bot.),+A+shrub+({Kalmia+glauca">Swamp laurel (Bot.), a shrub ({Kalmia glauca) having small leaves with the lower surface glaucous.
Swamp maple (Bot.), Red maple. See Maple.
Swamp oak (Bot.), A name given to several kinds of oak which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak ({Quercus palustris), swamp white oak ({Quercus bicolor), swamp post oak ({Quercus lyrata}).
Swamp ore (Min.), Bog ore; limonite.
Swamp partridge (Zool.), Any one of several Australian game birds of the genera Synoicus and Excalfatoria, allied to the European partridges.
Swamp robin (Zool.), The chewink.
Swamp sassafras (Bot.), A small North American tree of the Magnolia+({Magnolia+glauca">genus Magnolia ({Magnolia glauca) with aromatic leaves and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also sweet bay.
Swamp sparrow (Zool.), A common North American sparrow ({Melospiza Georgiana, or Melospiza palustris), closely resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy places.
Swamp willow. (Bot.) See Pussy willow, under Pussy.
Swamp (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Swamped; p. pr. & vb. n. Swamping.] To plunge or sink into a swamp.
Swamp (v. t.) (Naut.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
Swamp (v. t.) Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers. -- J. R. Green.
Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Swamp (n.) Low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog [syn: swamp, swampland].
Swamp (n.) A situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; "he was trapped in a medical swamp."
Swamp (v.) Drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor" [syn: swamp, drench].
Swamp (v.) Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" [syn: deluge, flood, inundate, swamp].
Swamp (v.) To cover (something) with water.
Swamp (v.) To cause (someone or something) to have to deal with a very large amount of things or people at the same time.
Swamp (v. t.) To fill with or as if with water : Inundate, Submerge.
Swamp (v. t.) To overwhelm numerically or by an excess of something : Flood <swamped with work>.
Swamp (v. t.) To open by removing underbrush and debris.
Swamp (v. i.) To become submerged.
Swamp (n.) Wet spongy land often partly covered with water.
Swamp (v.) -- Swamped, -- Swamping, To fill or cause to fill with water : sink after filling with water <High waves swamped the boat.> <The boat swamped.>.
Swamp (v.) Overwhelm 1 <She was swamped with work.>.
Swamp (n.) [ C or U ] (An area of) 沼澤地；濕地 Very wet, soft land.
// An alligator-infested swamp.
The Everglades are an area of swamp in southern Florida.
Swamp (v.) (Cover) [ T ] 淹沒，浸沒 To cover a place or thing with a large amount of water.
// High tides have swamped the coast.
// The boat was swamped by an enormous wave.
Swamp (v.) (Too much/ Big) [ T often passive ] 充斥，席捲，使應接不暇 If something swamps a person, system, or place, more of it arrives than can be easily dealt with.
// Foreign cars have swamped the UK market.
// I'm swamped with work at the moment.
Don't let feelings of depression swamp you.
Swamp (v.) (Too much/ Big) [ T ] (Informal) （衣服）太大而不適合 If clothes swamp you, they are much too big for you.
Swampy (a.) Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as, swampy land.
Swampy (a.) (Of soil) Soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged].
Swan (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have a large and strong beak and a long neck, and are noted for their graceful movements when swimming. Most of the northern species are white. In literature the swan was fabled to sing a melodious song, especially at the time of its death.
Note: The European white, or mute, swan ({Cygnus gibbus), which is most commonly domesticated, bends its neck in an S-shaped curve. The whistling, or trumpeting, swans of the genus Olor do not bend the neck in an S-shaped curve, and are noted for their loud and sonorous cry, due to complex convolutions of the windpipe. To this genus belong the European whooper, or whistling swan ({Olor cygnus), the American whistling swan ({Olor Columbianus), and the trumpeter swan ({Olor buccinator). The Australian black swan ({Chenopis atrata) is dull black with white on the wings, and has the bill carmine, crossed with a white band. It is a very graceful species and is often domesticated. The South American black-necked swan ({Sthenelides melancorypha) is a very beautiful and graceful species, entirely white, except the head and neck, which are dark velvety seal-brown. Its bill has a double bright rose-colored knob.
Swan (n.) Fig.: An appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace and melody; as Shakespeare is called the swan of Avon.
Swan (n.) (Astron.) The constellation Cygnus.
Swan+goose+(Zool.),+A+bird+of+India+({Cygnopsis+cygnoides">Swan goose (Zool.), a bird of India ({Cygnopsis cygnoides) resembling both the swan and the goose.
Swan
shot, A large
size of shot used in fowling.
Swan (n.) Stately heavy-bodied aquatic
bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult.
Swan (v.) To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear].
Swan (v.) Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond].
Swan (v.) Sweep majestically; "Airplanes were swanning over the mountains."
SWAN, () Secure WAN (RSA), "S/WAN."
SWAN, () Sun Wide Area Network (Sun, WAN).
Swan, () Mentioned in the list of unclean birds (Lev. 11:18; Deut. 14:16), is sometimes met with in the Jordan and the Sea of Galilee.
Swan, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 121
Housing Units (2000): 40
Land area (2000): 0.647074 sq. miles (1.675914 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.647074 sq. miles (1.675914 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76665
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.466268 N, 93.311197 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50252
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Swan, IA
Swan
Swing (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Swung; Archaic imp. Swang; p. pr. & vb. n. Swinging.] To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer, in case of exsuction of the air. -- Boyle.
Swing (v. i.) To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open.
Swing (v. i.) To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See Swing, n., 3.
Swing (v. i.) (Naut.) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.
Swing (v. i.) To be hanged. [Colloq.] -- D. Webster.
To swing round the circle, to make a complete circuit. [Colloq.]
He had swung round the circle of theories and systems in which his age abounded, without finding relief. -- A. V. G. Allen.
Swang () Obs. imp. of Swing.
Swang (n.) A swamp. [Prov. Eng.]
Swanherd (n.) One who tends or marks swans; as, the royal swanherd of England.
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. [Eng.] -- Encyc. Brit.
Swan-hopping (n.) A corruption of Swan-upping. [Eng.] -- Encyc. Brit.
Swainmote (n.) (Eng. Forest Law) A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury. [Written also swanimote, and sweinmote.] -- Blackstone.
Swanimote (n.) (Eng. Forest Law) See Swainmote. Swankie
Swankie (n.) Alt. of Swanky.
Swanky (n.) An active and clever young fellow. [Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Swanlike (a.) Resembling a swan.
Swanmark (n.) A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan. [Eng.] -- Encyc. Brit.
Swannery (n.) A place where swans are bred. "The largest swannery in England." -- Encyc. Brit.
Swanny (a.) Swanlike; as, a swanny glossiness of the neck. -- Richardson.
Swanpan (n.) The Chinese abacus; a schwanpan. -- S. W. Williams. Swan's-down
Swan's-down (n.) Alt. of Swans-down.
Swans-down (n.) The down, or fine, soft feathers, of the swan, used on various articles of dress.