swaddling band, swaddling cloth, swaddling clout

A band or cloth wrapped tightly round an infant; a swaddle. "The child does not try to throw off its swaddlingcloaths without a judgment that the pre ure it feels comes from them and that it may remove them by struggling."-Search: Light of Nature , vol. i., pt. i., ch. ii. swaddling-clothes, s . pl . [SWADDLING-BAND.] swag, *swagge, v . i . [Norw. svaga to sway; cf. Sw. sviga to give way; swag weak, bending; Icel. sveigja to give way.] [SWAGGER, v.] 1. To hang loose and heavy. 2. To swagger; to walk or move heavily and unevenly. "I swagge as a fatte persons belly swaggeth as he goth." -Palsgrave, 3. To sink down by its weight; to sway. "Because so laid, they [brick or squared stones] are more apt in swagging down, to pierce with their points, than in the jacent posture." -Reliquia Wottonianæ, p. 20. swag, s . [SWAG, v.] 1. An unequal, hobbling motion. 2. A large quantity; a lot; hence, stolen property; booty. ( Slang .) "It's all arranged about bringing off the swag ."Dickens: Oliver Twist , ch. xix. (Prov.) 2. A short, fat person. "For so he was a Dutche, a deuill, a swadde." Gas coigne: Voyage into Hollande. 3. A silly, coarse fellow; a bumpkin. "Three drunken swads that kept the castell thought that this showt was nought else but a dreame."-Holinshed: Chron. of Ireland (an. 1534). II. Mining: A thin layer of stone or refuse coal at the bottom of the coal-seam. swad (2), s. [A corruption of squad (q. v.).] A lump, ma , or bunch; a crowd, a squad. ( Vul gar.) "You'll sell twice as much as ever you did, you'll put off a proper swad of goods next year, you may depend."Haliburton: Clockmaker , p. 76. swad-dle, *swad-ell, *swad-il, *swad-le, v. t. [SWADDLE, 8.] 1. To bind, as with a bandage; to swathe; to bind or wrap tightly with clothes. (Generally used of infants.) "He muste bee fayne once or twise a day to suradle and plaster his legge, and els he could not kepe his life." More: Workes , p. 80. IMG:content-0653.png:[blocks in formation] "I would swaddle ye, Till I could draw off both your skins like scabbards." Beaum. & Flet.: The Captain, ii. 2.