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19. 6. To deviate or incline to one side; to make a sweep. (Usually with round .) "Leaving the Firs from the Lark Hill side, the fox quickly swung round to Marsh Break."- Field , Dec. 6, 1884. II. Naut.: To move or float round with the wind or tide, as a ship riding at a single anchor.. B. Transitive : 1. To cause to move to and fro or oscillate; to make to vibrate or wave, as a body suspended in the air. "The boy who wished to be a king that he might have an officer appointed to swing him all day long upon a gate, took his resolution upon the remembrance of what had given him pleasure." Search: Light of Nature , vol. i., pt. ii., ch. xxii. 2. To whirl round in the air; to wave, to brandish. IMG:content-0694.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Literally : (1) The act or state of swinging; a waving or oscillating motion of a thing suspended and hanging loose; motion backward and forward or from one side to the other; oscillation. "They say that a godde , having a lump or ma of earth suspended in a cord, gave it a swing , and scattered about pieces of land, thus constituting Otaheite and the neighboring islands."-Cook. Third Voyage , bk. iii., ch. ix. (2) A line, cord, rope, ., suspended and hanging loose, on which anything may swing or oscillate; consisting of a rope or IMG:content-0695.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Unrestrained liberty; freedom; free use. "He must give place for pace and free swinge of his feet."- Chapman : Homer's Iliad , xiii. full swing."-London Weekly Echo. swing-beam, s. 1. Railway Eng .: A cro -piece suspended from the truck, and sustaining the body of the carriage, so that it may have independent lateral motion. 2. Carp .: A cro -beam supporting an over-head mow in a barn. swing-boat, subst. A boat-shaped carriage slung from a frame, in which young persons swing for amusement at fairs, .