swine flesh (swinflesh)

[ Bishop , Marrow of Astrology, p. 36. ( Hall i well .) Then sett down the swine yard [the boar's head], The foe to the vineyard, Let Bacchus crowne his fall. Christmas Prince , p. 24. ( Nares .) IMG:content-2638.png:[blocks in formation] I chanced to see a year ago men at work swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stone henge columns with an ordinary derrick. Emerson, English Traits, xvi. flap with the wings, tr. beat, dash courge = = = OS. swing an = OFries. swing a = D. swingen = MLG. swingen, fly, flutter, swing, throw, beat, scourge, OHG. swing an, MHG. swingen, G. schwingen, swing, rise, soar, = Sw. swing a Dan. svinge, sringe, swing, whirl, = Goth. * swiggwan (indicated by the above forms, and by the deriv. * swaggwjan, in comp. uf - swaggwjan ); akin to swink and swank1, and perhaps ult. to sway, swag. Hence swinge1, swinglel, etc.] I. in trans. 1. To move to and fro, as a body suspended from a fixed point or line of support; vibrate; oscillate. We thought it not ami to try if a pendulum would swing faster or continue swinging longer in our receiver, in case of exhaustion of the air, than otherwise. Boyle, Spring of the Air, xxvi. In the towers I placed great bells that swung, Moved of themselves, with silver sound. Tennyson, Palace of Art. 2. To move or oscillate in any plane about a fixed point or line of support: often with round: as, a gate swings on its hinges; the boom of a ve el swings round. Fauns and Satyrs beat the ground In cadence, and Silenus swang This way and that, with wild flowers crowned. Words worth, Power of Sound, st. 10. The gates swung backward at his shouted word. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, III. 254. 3. To move with a free swaying motion, as soldiers on the march; sometimes, to move with a bouncing motion. See swinging1, p. a. The boy,. with an indignant look and as much noise as he could make, swung out of the room. Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, ii. 6. They (the Pru ian troops] swung along the road to Metz, acro the grave-besprinkled plain of Mars-la-Tour and through the ensanguined gorge of Grave lotte. Lowe , Bismarck, II. 51. From another street swings in a truck piled high with ladders. Scribner's Mag . , IX. 54. 4. To move backward and forward on a suspended rope or on a seat suspended by ropes; ride in a swing. On two near elms the slacken'd cord I hung, Now high, now low, my Blouzelinda swung. Gay , Shepherd's Week, Monday, 1. 104. 5. Naut ., to move or float round with the wind or tide, as a ship riding at a single anchor. A ship of Tyre was swinging nigh the shore. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, III. 5. 6. To be hanged; be suspended by the neck till dead. [Colloq.] Did Brown rigg swing . For this act Poetry of Antijacobin , p. 7. ( Davies .) And now they tried the deed to hide; For a little bird whisper'd, "Perchance you may swing ." Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 229. Swinging substage. See substage. - To swing around or round the circle, to make a complete circuit, as in going from place to place; also, to veer about like a weathercock in one's opinions; trim continually. [Colloq.] After the trial began, the president [Andrew Johnson] made a tour through the northwest, which was called swinging round the circle, because in his speeches he declared that he had swung around the entire circle of offices, from alderman to president. Applet on's Cyc. Amer . Biog ., III. 439. To swing clear, to ride at anchor, as a ve el, without colliding with any object often used figuratively. =Syn. 1. Roll, etc. See rock2 . II. trans. 1. To cause to sway or oscillate; cause to vibrate, as a body suspended in the air; cause to move backward and forward below or about a fixed point or line of support. They get on ropes, as you must have seen the children, and are swung by their men visitants. Steele , Spectator, No. 492. The pendulums were surung through six consecutive days and nights at each place. Amer . Jour . Sci ., 3d ser., XL. 481. 2. To support and move in some way resembling or suggesting the movement of a suspended body, as a pendulum; move freely through the air: used of a great variety of acts: as, to swing one's arms in walking; to swing a club about one's head; to swing a stone with a crane. The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepared, Which, as he breathed defiance to my ears, He swung about his head and cut the winds. Shak . , R. and J., i. 1. 118. Go, baffled coward! lest I run upon thee,... Or swing thee in the air, then dash thee down, To the hazard of thy brains and shatter'd sides. Milton , S. A., 1. 1240. large busine . [Colloq.] -4. To move as if by swinging about an axis or fixed point; cause to move in a way resembling in some degree the motion of a spoke of a wheel. By means of the railroad, troops can be swung acro from bay to bay as the exigencies of the war may require. Jour. Mil . Service Inst., X. 588. 5. To suspend so as to hang freely between points of support; suspend freely. Fair the trellised vine-bunches Are swung acro the high elm-trees. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, I. 354. 6t. To pack, as herrings, in casks or barrels. Wee call it the swinging of herrings, when hee [we?] cade them. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (Harl. Misc., VI. 179). Hoisted and swung. See hoist. - To swing a ship, to bring the ship's head to every point of the compa in succe ion in order to ascertain the amount of local deviation or compa -error on each heading by comparing the apparent and true bearings of some distant object. - To swing the base-line, to transfer a number of registered claims bodily to a fresh base-line. [Australia.) swing (swing), n. [ a blow, = OFries. swinge = OHG. swing, MHG. swinc = Sw. Dan. sving, a swing, flourish; from the verb.] 1. The act of swinging; an oscillation or vibration; the sweep of a body moving in suspension from or about a fixed support: used with much latitude and often figuratively. The ram that batters down the wall, For the great swing and rudene of his poise, They place before his hand that made the engine. Shak . , T. and C., 1. 3. 207. Quarles, Emblems, iii. 1. All states have changes hurried with the swings Of chance and time, still riding to and fro. IMG:content-2639.png:[blocks in formation] Ancient Swing, from a Greek red-figured hydria of the 4th century B. C., found at Nola. port at the same distance above the ground, between which the seat hangs freely, used in the sport of swinging backward and forward. Swings are also made in which strips of wood take the place of the rope. Some set up swings in the street, and get money of those who will swing in them. Dampier, Voyages, an. 1688. 4. Free course; abandonment to any motive; one's own way; unrestrained liberty or license. Ha' you done yet? take your whole swing of anger; I'll bear all with content. Beau , and Fl ., Little French Lawyer, ii. 3. Let them have their swing that affect to be terribly singular. G. Harvey, Four Letters. The man who. desired to thrust the world aside and take his swing of indulgence uninterrupted and unchecked. Godwin, Fleet wood, vii. 5. Unrestrained tendency; natural bent: as, the swing of propensities. Were it not for these, civil governments were not able to stand before the prevailing swing of corrupt nature, which would know no honesty but advantage. South. swinge 6. In a lathe, the distance between the head center and the bed or ways of the machine, this distance limiting the diameter of the work placed in the lathe: hence a lathe may be described as having a 6-inch swing, an 18-inch swing, etc. In order to increase the swing, a gap or depre ion is sometimes made in the bed of a lathe, when the machine is called a gap - bed lathe. See lathel. 7. In a carriage-wheel, the apparent cant or leaning outward of the upper half of the wheel; the dish or dishing of the wheel. See dish, r. t., 2. -8. The rope or chain reaching forward from the end of the tongue of a wagon along which a team in front of the wheelers is hitched by a swingletree. This team is said to be in the swing. Hence-9. The team so harne ed; in a six horse or six-mule team, the pair of animals between the wheelers and the leaders; also, the position of this pair of animals, or their relation to the rest of the team.-10. In photog.: (a) A swing-back. (b) The motion or funetion of a swing-back, including the single swing and the double swing. The single swing provides for a change of the vertical angle of the sensitive plate; the double swing, in addition to the motion of the single swing, admits of a change in the horizontal angle. See swing back.-Full swing. (a) Same as swing, n., 4. In the great chorus of song with which England greeted the dawn of this century, individuality had full swing . J. C. Shairp , Aspects of Poetry, p. 132. (b) With eager haste; with violence and impetuosity: an elliptical quasi-adverbial use. -In full swing, in full ope ration or working; in full blast. And in the reign of Henry's son, when every kind of alteration, alienation, and sacrilege was in full swing, Latimer became the Jeremiah of the Reformation. R. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., ii.