swaggerer (swagerer)

[ Patience herself would startle at this letter, And play the swaggerer . Shak., As you Like it, iv. 3. 14. swaggering (swag'er-ing), n. [Verbal n. of swagger1, v.] The act of strutting; blustering; bravado. I am very glad You are not gulled by all this swaggering. Browning , Para cels us. swaggering (swag'er-ing), p. a. [Ppr. of swag ger1, v.] Strutting; blustering; boasting. Here's a swaggering fellow, sir, that speaks not like a man of God's making, swears he must speak with you, and will speak with you. Dekker and Webster , Northward Ho, iv. 1. swaggeringly (swag'er-ing-li), adv. In a swaggering manner; with bravado. "I do not car care what she says!" replies Lily, swagger ingly . R. Brought on, Dr. Cupid, xi. swaggingt (swag'ing), p . a. Swaggy; pendulous. The belly [of the toad] is large and swagging . Goldsmith , Animated Nature, xi. swaggyt (swag'i), a . [ lous. His swaggy and prominent belly. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 4. swaging-machine (swa'jing-ma-shēn"), machine for shaping sheet-metal either by means of a blow or by pre ure. E. H. Knight . swaging-mallet (swa'jing-mal"et), ng-mallet (swa'jing-malet), n. A tool used in dental work to bring artificial plates to shape. swagman (swag'man), (swag'man), n.; pl. swagmen (-men). [ It is the same with the women who work for the slop shirt merchants, ., or make cap-fronts, ., on their own account, for the supply of the shopkeepers, or the wholesale swag - men , who sell low-priced millinery. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, II. 93. 2. A man who travels in search of employ ment: so called because he carries his swag, or bundle of clothes, blanket, etc. Also swagsman, swagger. [Australia.] Remember in' the needful, I gets up an' quietly slips To the porch to see a swagsman -with our bottle to his lips. J. B. Stephens, Drought and Doctrine. swag-shop (swag's hop), n. A place where low priced trashy goods are sold; formerly, a plunder-depot. Hotten . [Slang.] swaimish, a. A dialectal form of squeamish. swain (swan), n. [ OHG. swein, a herdsman, swain; perhaps ult. akin to son1; but not, as has been supposed, directly related to swine. Hence, in comp., boat wain, contr. boson, and coxswain, contr. cox on.] 11. A young man or boy in service; a servant. Worschipe me here, & bicome my swayn , And y schal zeue thee al this. Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 44. Hym boes serve hymselne that has na swayn . Chaucer , Reeve's Tale, 1. 107. 2t. A young man in attendance on a knight; a squire. swallow Forth went knyght & sueyn, & fote men alle in fere. Rob. of Brunne , p. 241. zondyr ys Gayere, an harde swayn , The emperowre sone of Almayn. MS . Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, f. 150. ( Hall i well .) 3. A man dwelling in the country; a countryman employed in husbandry; a rustic. There is a Back-gate for the Beggars and the meaner Sort of Swains to come in at. Howell, Letters, L. ii. 8. The Swains their Flocks and Herds had fed. Congreve, Hymn to Venus. Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn." Gray, Elegy. Hence-4. A country gallant; a lover or sweetheart generally. Blest swains! whose nymphs in every grace excel. Pope , Spring, 1. 95. Swain moot. See mootl. swaining (swa'ning), n. [ His general manner had a good deal of what in female slang is called swaining. Mrs. Trollope , Michael Armstrong, i. (Davies.) swainish (swa'nish), a. [ swain + -ish1.] Pertaining to or resembling a swain; rustic; boorish. [Rare.] Not to be sensible when good and faire in one person meet argues both a gro e and shallow judgement and with all an ungentle and swainish brest. Milton , Apology for Smectymnuus. The state of swainishne (swa'nish-nes), n. being swainish. [Rare.] Others who are not only swainish, but are prompt to take oath that swainishne is the only culture. Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (ed. 1876), p. 87. swainlingt (swan'ling), n. [ While we stand Hand in hand, Honest swainling , with his sweeting. Witts Recreations (1654). ( Nares .) swain motet (swān'mōt), n. [Also sweinmote ; swanimotum ); swain + mote3, moot1.] See swain moot , under moot1 . Swains on a (swan's on-ä), n. [NL. (Salisbury, 1806), named after Isaac Swains on , a cultivator of plants at Twickenham in England, about 1790.] A genus of leguminous plants, of the tribe Galegeæ and subtribe Coluteæ . It is characterized by flowers with a roundish spreading or reflexed banner-petal, a broad incurved keel which is obtuse or produced into a twisted beak, a curving style which is bearded lengthwise and inwardly or rarely on the back, and by an ovoid or oblong swollen pod which is coriaceous or membranous and often longitudinally two-celled by the intrusion of the seed-bearing suture. There are about 28 species, all natives of Australia or (one species) of New Zealand. They are herbs or shrubs, either smooth or clothed with somewhat appre ed hairs. They common ly with broad leaf-like stipules, and bluish, purplish, or red, farely white or lower th Several species are cultivated under the name Swains on pea; especially two species with large pink or red flowers S. Greyana with a white cottony calyx and S. galegifolia with calyx smooth, both also known as Darling - river pea, or as poison - pea, being said to poison stock; the latter is also called indigo - plant and horse - poison plant. swaip (swap), v. i. [A dial. form of sweep or swoop.] To walk proudly; sweep. [Prov. Eng.] swaits, n. Same as swats. swalt. An obsolete strong preterit of swell. swalel (swal), n. [ swale2 (swal), a. [ melt and run down, as from heat; show the effects of great heat, whether by melting or by burning slowly. II. trans. To burn, whether by singeing or by causing to melt or to run down; especially, to dre , as an animal killed for food, by singeing off the hair. [Prov. Eng. in both uses.] swale3 (swal), n. [ swale3 , v.] A gutter in a candle. [Prov. Eng.] swallow1 (swol'ō), v . [Early mod. E. also swalow , swolow ; swolowen , swolwen , swolzen, swolezhen, swolhen , orig. a strong verb, swel The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary swallow wen, swelzen, Goth. * swilhan (not recorded), swallow. Hence swallow1 , n., and ult. the second element of groundsell .] I. trans. 1. To take into the stomach through the throat, as food or drink; receive through the organs of deglutition; take into the body through the mouth. To the Scribes and Pharisees woe was denounc'd by our Saviour for straining at a Gnatt and swallowing a Camel. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, ii. Occasionally, in trance, the patient, though insensible, swallows morsels put into his mouth. H. Spencer , Prin. of Sociol., § 84. 2. Hence, in figurative use, to draw or take in, in any way; absorb; appropriate; exhaust; consume; engulf: usually followed by up . Faith, hope, and love be three sisters; they never can depart in this world, though in the world to come love shall swallow up the other two. Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 95. The first thing is the tender compa ion of God respecting us drowned and swallowed up in misery. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, i. 11. The earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up. Num. xvi. 32. The nece ary provision of life swallows the greatest part of their time. Locke . In upper Egypt there were formerly twenty-four provinces, but many of them are now swallow'd up by Arab Sheiks, so that on the west side I could hear of none but Girge, Esne, and Manfalouth. Pococke , Description of the East, I. 162. Specifically-3. To take into the mind readily or credulously; receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; receive implicitly; drink in: sometimes with down. I saw a smith stand With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news. Shak., K. John, iv. 2. 195. Here men are forced, at a venture, to be of the religion of the country, and must therefore swallow down opinions, as silly people do empiric pills, without knowing what they are made of. Locke , Human Understanding, IV. xx. 4. 4. To put up with; bear; take patiently: as, to swallow an affront. The mother (not able to swallow her shame and griefe) cast herselfe into the lake to bee swallowed of the water, but there, by a new Metamorphosis, was turned into a Fish, and hallowed for a Godde e. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 92. Will not the proposal of so excellent a reward make us swallow some more than ordinary hardships that we might enjoy it? Stilling fleet, Sermons, I. ii. 5. To retract; recant. Isab . Did Angelo so leave her? Duke. Left her in her tears;. swallowed his vows whole, pretending in her discoveries of dishonour. Shak., M. for M., iii. 1. 235. =Syn. 1-3. Engro , Engulf , etc. See absorb . II. in trans. To perform the act of swallowing; accomplish deglutition.