swellmob

The cla of pickpockets who go about well dre ed, so as to mix in crowds with le chance of being suspected. ( Slang.) swell-mobsman, subst. A member of the swell mob. "The swell-mobsman's eye is for ever wandering in search of his prey." -Quarterly Review, June, 1856, p. 182. swell-dom, subst . [ Eng.swell , a.; -dom .] The world of rank or fashion. "All swelldom is at her feet." -Thackeray : New comes, ch. xliii. IMG:content-0685.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A tumor or any morbid enlargement of the natural size. "Wherever they bite they cause a swelling , and such an intolerable itching, that it is not po ible to refrain from scratching."-Cook: Second Voyage , bk. i., ch. iii. 3. A protuberance, a prominence. "The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings , which, how shallow soever, do a little vary the thickne of the plate."-Newton: Optics. *4. An overflow; an inundation. "He shall come up as a lion from the swelling of Jordan."- Jeremiah xlix. 19. *5. The state of being puffed up; pride, arrogance. "I feare lest there be found amonge you debate, enuy inge, wrath, stryfe, backbytyngs, whysperynges, swellynges discorde."-2 Corinth. xii. (1551.) swell-Ish, a . [Eng. swell , a.; -ish .] Characteristic of a swell or dandy; dandified, foppish, stylish; would-be fashionable or aristocratic. *swelt, *swelt-en, v. i. & t . [A. S. swelt an = to die; cogn. with Icel. swelt a =to die, to starve; Dan. sulte ; Sw.swälta ; Goth.swill an .] [SULTRY.] A. Intransitive : IMG:content-0686.png:[blocks in formation] B. Trans.: To overpower, as with heat; to cause to faint. "Is the sun to be blamed that the traveler's cloak smelts him with heat?"- Bishop Hall : Soliloquies , 74. swěl-těr, v . i. & t. [SWELT.] [SULTRY.] A. Intransitive : 1. To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with exce ive heat. "The soldiers have nothing to do but swelter in their tents during the heat of the day."- London Daily News. *2. To welter, to soak. ( Drayton .) 3. To sweat profusely. "They bathe their coursers' sweltering sides." Scott: Lady of the Lake, v. 18. *B. Transitive : 1. To oppre by exce ive heat. "One climate would be scorched and sweltered with everlasting dog-days; while an eternal December blasted another."- Bentley : Sermon 8. 2. To breed by internal heat. (According to Schmidt : Shakesp . Lexicon =to exude.) "[Has] sweltered venom sleeping got." Shakesp.: Macbeth , iv. 1. swěl-try, *suel-trie, adj . [Eng. swelter : -y.] Suffocating with heat; exce ively hot; sultry. "Outcast of Nature, Man!the wretched thrall Of bitter dropping sweat, of sweltry pain." Thomson: Castle of Indolence, i. 11. *swěńkt, a . [SWINK.] Tired with work. "The swenkt grinders."- Carlyle : French Revol.; pt. ii., bk. iv., ch. vi. *swēpe, s . [SWEEP, 8. ] swept, pret. & pa. par. of v. [SWEEP, v.] *swerd (1), s. [SWARD.] *swerd (2), *swerde, s . [SWORD.]