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pl. [Eng.swill; -ings.] The same as SWILL, 8. (2) (q. v.). swim, (1), *swim me, *swum-en, *swy me, *swymme (pa. t. swam , swum , * swom , pa. par. swum , *swom), v. i. & t. [A. S. swimman (pa. t. swamm , swomm ); cogn. with Dut. zwemmen ; Icel. svimma (pa. t. svamm , pa. par. summit ;, Dan. svomme ; Swedish simma; Ger. schwimmen (pa. t. schwamm).] A. Intransitive: 1. To move to and fro on or in water; to float or be supported on water or other liquid; not to sink in any liquid. 2. To move progre ively in the water by means of the motion of the hands and feet. "Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point." Shakesp. Julius Cæsar, i. 2. *3. To float; to be borne by or on the water. ( Shakesp .: As You Like It ., iv. 1.) *4. To glide along with a smooth motion. "With pretty and with swimming gait." Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 1. 5. To be flooded; to overflow; to be drenched. "All the night make I my bed to swim : I water my couch with my tears." -Psalm vi. 6. *6. Το overflow, to abound; to have abundance. "There thou maist love, and dearly loved be, And swim in pleasure, which thou here dost mis." Spenser: F. Q. , II. iii. 39. B. Transitive : 1. To pa or cro by swimming; to move on, in, or over by swimming. "You never swam the Hellespont." 2. (See extract.) "Yesterday, being St. David's Day, good swig should have been had for the asking by Cam and Isis. To make swig , the concocter must provide himself with half a pound of Lisbon sugar, several pints of warm beer, some nutmeg, ginger, and sherry, some slices of lemon and fragments of toast, or, if preferred, a few roasted apples."-London Daily Telegraph . II. Nautical: A pulley with ropes which are not parallel. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; IMG:content-0691.png:[blocks in formation] swimming-belt, s. An air-inflated belt worn round the person as a support in the water. swimming-birds, s . pl . Ornith.: The same as NAT A TO RES (q. v.). swimming-bladder, s . Comp. Anat.: The swim-bladder or air-bladder of Fishes; a hollow sac, formed of several tunics, con- taining gas, situated in the abdominal cavity, but outside the peritoneal sac, entirely closed or com- municating by a duct with the intestinal tract. The special function of the swimming-bladder is to alter the specific gravity of the fish, or to change the center of gravity. It is absent in the Leptocar- dii, Cyclo stomata, Chondropterygii, and Holoceph- ala, but occurs in all the Ganoidei, in one sub-order of which (Dipnoi) it po e es anatomical charac- ters, and a umes, to some extent, the functions of a lung; in the genus Ceratodus, the swimming- bladder, though a single cavity, has symmetrically arranged internal pouches, while in the other gen- era of the sub-order (Lepidosiren and Prot opter us) it is laterally halved, is supplied with venous blood by a true pulmonary artery, and by its cellu- lar structure closely approaches the lungs of a reptile. IMG:content-0692.png:[blocks in formation] A. & B. As pr . par . & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: A dizzine or giddine ; vertigo. "It is good for the swimming and dizzine of the braine." P. Holland: Pliny. swim'-ming-ly, adv . [Eng. swimming (1); -ly.] In an easy, gliding manner, like one swimming; hence, smoothly, without obstruction, with perfect svineya =aswine, svinka =apig, svinina =pork; Lat. sus a sow, suinus belonging to swine, swinish. Swine is used both as a singular and a plural noun.) 1. Lit .: Any individual of the family Suide, and particularly of the genus Sus (q. v.); a pig, a hog (q. v.). 2. Fig .: A low, mean, filthy person. swine-arnut, s. Bot.: Arrhenatherum avenaceum . swine-bread, s. A kind of plant; truffle. IMG:content-0693.png:[blocks in formation] Bot.: Polygonum aviculare . swine-oat, s. swine-sty, s. A sty or pen for swine. †swine-tang, s. Bot .: Fucus vesicutosus . swine-thistle, s . Bot.: Sonchus oleraceus . [SOW THISTLE.] swine's bane, s . "In a figurative sense the German schwindel is applied to dealings in which the parties seem to have lost their head, as we say, to have become dizzy over unfounded or unreasonable prospects of gain. The word may be trans- lated madne , delusion. Then, in a factitive sense, schwindeler, one who induces delusions in others. em etwas abschwindeln ,' to get something out of another by inducing delusions; to swindle him out of something." swindler, s. [Ger.schwindler=an extravagant projector, a swindler, from schwindeln =to be dizzy, to cheat; schwindel =dizzine ; schwinden to de- cay, to sink, to fail; cogn. with A. S. swindan (p. t. swand)=to languish.] One who swindles; one who defrauds others by deliberate artifice; an habitual cheat, a rogue. "Bedloe, a noted swindler , followed." -Macaulay : Hist. Eng ., ch. ii. Warner: Albions England, bk. iv., ch. xx. *swine-herd-ship, *swine-heard-ship, subst. [Eng. swineherd ; -ship.] The office or position of a swineherd. "An vnder swine heard ship did serue, He sought not to be chiefe." Warner: Albions England , bk. iv., ch. xx. *swin-er-ý, subst . [Eng. swine; -ry.] A place where swine are kept; a piggery. swing swing, to whirl; Danish svinge; German schwingen. Swing is a nasalized form from sway (q. v.).] [SWINGE.] A. Intransitive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave, to oscillate, to vibrate. "I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer in our receiver, in case of exsuction of the air than otherwise."-Boyle. 2. To practice swinging; to fly backward and forward on a suspended rope. "Some set up swings in the streets, and get money of those who will swing in them.- Dampier : Voyages (an. 1688). 3. To be hanged. (Colloq. or slang .) Boz ; Drunkard's Grave. "If I'm caught I shall swing ." -Dickens: Sketches by 4. To turn or move sharply in a curved or circular direction. (Usually with round .) "A large body of men were at work at the capstan, when, through some accident, it swung round."-London Daily Chronicle. 5. To pa backward and forward; to reecho, to be returned. "From tower to tower the warders call: The sound swings over land and sea, And marks a watchful enemy."