swag bellied

Having a large, overhanging "Your swag - bellied Hollander." --Shakesp.: Othello, ii. 3. swag-belly, s. *1. A prominent or projecting belly; a swag-bellied person. 2. A large tumor developed in the abdomen, and neither fluctuating nor sonorous. ( Dunglison .) *swage (1), *suāģe (u as w), v. t . & i. [A contract. of a uage (q. v.).] A. Trans.: To ease, to soften, to a uage, to quiet. B. In trans.: To abate, to a uage; to quiet down. "Where salt and fresh the pool renews As spring or drought increase or swage ." Carew: Survey of Cornwall. swāģe (2), v . t. [SWAGE, s.] To shape by means of a swage; to fashion by hammering in a groove or mold of the required shape. swåge, s. [Etym. doubtful.] Forg.: A tool having a face of a given shape, the counterpart of which is imparted to the object against which it is forcibly impre ed. When used by blacksmiths and other forgers in metal, it is either placed on the anvil so as to impre the hot metal, which is laid thereon and struck by a hammer or monkey, or, the work being laid on the anvil, the face of the swage is held upon it, and the back of the swage receives the blow. swage-block, subst . A large perforated block of iron, having grooved sides, and adapted for heading bolts and swaging objects of larger size than can be worked in the ordinary heading tools and swages fitted to the anvil. swag'-ger, v. i. & t. [A freq. from swag, v. (q. v.).] A. Intransitive: 1. To strut with an insolent or defiant air; to strut about with an affected superiority. "[He] swaggered like a lord about his hall." Dryden: Cock and Fox, 443. *2. To boast or brag noisily; to bluster, to bully, to hector. "It was Atheism openly swaggering , under the glorious appearance of wisdom and philosophy."- Cudworth : In tell . System, p. 61. *B. Trans.: To influence by blustering, bullying, or threats. swag-ger, s. [SWAGGER, v.] A piece of bluster; noisy boasting or bragging; an insolent strut. "The butcher is stout, and he values no swagger." Swift: Will Wood's Petition,