swanmark

A mark indicating the ownership of a swan. IMG:content-0660.png:[blocks in formation] "Many tales of swan-wives still live among the Norse people." -Grimm: Deut . Mythol . (ed. Stally bra ), i. 427. The down or swan's down, swan-down, s . soft feathers obtained from a swan. "With his fan of turkey-feathers, With his plumes and tufts of swan's down." Long fellow: Hiawatha. swăng, s . [From the same root as SWAMP (q.v.).) A piece of low or green sward liable to be covered with water; a swamp, a bog. ( Prov .) swăn-ga, a. [An African negro word.] Conceited; dandified; bravely tricked out; as, a swang a buckra a dandy white man. swan-herd, s . [Eng. swan , and herd.] One who tends swans. swank, a . [Cf. Ger. schwank =pliant, supple.] 1. Thin, slender, pliant, agile. ( Scotch .) 2. Stately, jolly. "Thou ance was i' the foremost rank, A filly buirdly, steeve, an' swank ." Burns : Auld Farmer to his Auld Mare.