SWAIN
First name SWAIN's origin is Other. SWAIN means "knight's attendant". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with SWAIN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of swain.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with SWAIN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming SWAIN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES SWAŻN AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH SWAŻN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (wain) - Names That Ends with wain:
brengwain dewain dwain gawain thawain wain twain owainRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ain) - Names That Ends with ain:
husain agravain alain mabonagrain tortain fiamain bain banain coinleain charmain dubhain etain germain ain bhradain bothain brittain broehain cain cochlain cuchulain culain dain deoradhain dubhagain efrain fain fallamhain flannagain gauvain gordain gormain husnain hussain iain jermain justain lochlain mabonaqain macbain morain narain riordain shain tremain zain diolmhain bheathain bharain thain brain houdain helain ghislain romain evrain mordrain gille-eathain jordainRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (in) - Names That Ends with in:
fatin yasmin camarin maolmin delbin kristin adin gin ixcatzin tepin tlazohtzin xochicotzin yoltzin zeltzin ihrin adwin akin alafin din kayin yerodin abbudin abdul-muhaimin aladdin amin mazin muhsin yasin custennin erbin pheredin taliesin txominNAMES RHYMING WITH SWAŻN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (swai) - Names That Begins with swai:
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (swa) - Names That Begins with swa:
swaynRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (sw) - Names That Begins with sw:
sweeney swift swinton swintun swithunNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SWAŻN:
First Names which starts with 'sw' and ends with 'in':
First Names which starts with 's' and ends with 'n':
sachin safin safwan sahran salamon salhtun salman salomon salton samman sampson samson sanborn sanderson sandon sanson santon saran sarpedon sasson saturnin saunderson sawsan saxan saxon scanlan scanlon scannalan scelftun scotlyn scrydan seadon sean seanachan seanan seaton sebasten sebastian sebastien sebastyn sebestyen seeton sefton sein seireadan selden seldon selvyn selwin selwyn sen senen senon seosaimhin seosaimhthin seppanen serafin serban seren seton severin severn sevin sevrin sextein sexton shaaban shaan shaelynn shaheen shan shanahan shandon shann shannen shannon sharaden sharon shauden shaughn shaun shawn shawnn shayan shaylon shaylynn shayten shealyn sheehan shelden sheldon shelton sherbourn sheridan sherman shermon sheron sherwin sherwyn shiannEnglish Words Rhyming SWAIN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES SWAŻN AS A WHOLE:
boatswain | noun (n.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties. |
noun (n.) The jager gull. | |
noun (n.) The tropic bird. |
cockswain | noun (n.) The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew. |
coxswain | noun (n.) See Cockswain. |
dagswain | noun (n.) A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool. |
swain | noun (n.) A servant. |
noun (n.) A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry. |
swainish | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant. |
swainling | noun (n.) A little swain. |
swainmote | noun (n.) A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury. |
swainship | noun (n.) The condition of a swain. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SWAŻN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (wain) - English Words That Ends with wain:
cordwain | noun (n.) A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like. |
twain | noun (a. & n.) Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque. |
wain | noun (n.) A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon. |
noun (n.) A chariot. | |
() A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ain) - English Words That Ends with ain:
almain | noun (n.) Alt. of Alman |
amain | noun (n.) With might; with full force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly. |
noun (n.) At full speed; in great haste; also, at once. | |
verb (v. t.) To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc. | |
verb (v. i.) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield. |
archchamberlain | noun (n.) A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England. |
attain | noun (n.) Attainment. |
verb (v. t.) To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest. | |
verb (v. t.) To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire. | |
verb (v. t.) To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain. | |
verb (v. t.) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at. | |
verb (v. t.) To overtake. | |
verb (v. t.) To reach in excellence or degree; to equal. | |
verb (v. i.) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach. | |
verb (v. i.) To come or arrive, by an effort of mind. |
bain | noun (n.) A bath; a bagnio. |
bargain | noun (n.) An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration. |
noun (n.) An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge. | |
noun (n.) A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain. | |
noun (n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap. | |
noun (n.) To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow. | |
verb (v. t.) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another. |
blain | noun (n.) An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister. |
noun (n.) A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath. |
brain | noun (n.) The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain. |
noun (n.) The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates. | |
noun (n.) The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding. | |
noun (n.) The affections; fancy; imagination. | |
verb (v. t.) To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat. | |
verb (v. t.) To conceive; to understand. |
captain | noun (n.) A head, or chief officer |
noun (n.) The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service. | |
noun (n.) An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army. | |
noun (n.) By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain. | |
noun (n.) The master or commanding officer of a merchant vessel. | |
noun (n.) One in charge of a portion of a ship's company; as, a captain of a top, captain of a gun, etc. | |
noun (n.) The foreman of a body of workmen. | |
noun (n.) A person having authority over others acting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team. | |
noun (n.) A military leader; a warrior. | |
adjective (a.) Chief; superior. | |
verb (v. t.) To act as captain of; to lead. |
catchdrain | noun (n.) A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water. |
certain | noun (n.) Certainty. |
noun (n.) A certain number or quantity. | |
adjective (a.) Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning. | |
adjective (a.) Determined; resolved; -- used with an infinitive. | |
adjective (a.) Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact. | |
adjective (a.) Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable. | |
adjective (a.) Unfailing; infallible. | |
adjective (a.) Fixed or stated; regular; determinate. | |
adjective (a.) Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; -- sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain persons. | |
adverb (adv.) Certainly. |
chain | noun (n.) A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc. |
noun (n.) That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit. | |
noun (n.) A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas. | |
noun (n.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land. | |
noun (n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels. | |
noun (n.) The warp threads of a web. | |
verb (v. t.) To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog. | |
verb (v. t.) To keep in slavery; to enslave. | |
verb (v. t.) To unite closely and strongly. | |
verb (v. t.) To measure with the chain. | |
verb (v. t.) To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor. |
chamberlain | noun (n.) An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers. |
noun (n.) An upper servant of an inn. | |
noun (n.) An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a nobleman or monarch; hence, in Europe, one of the high officers of a court. | |
noun (n.) A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc. |
chaplain | noun (n.) An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel. |
noun (n.) A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service. | |
noun (n.) Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge. |
chevrotain | noun (n.) A small ruminant of the family Tragulidae a allied to the musk deer. It inhabits Africa and the East Indies. See Kanchil. |
chieftain | noun (n.) A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan. |
chilblain | noun (n.) A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration. |
verb (v. t.) To produce chilblains upon. |
copatain | adjective (a.) Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top. |
curtain | noun (n.) A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage. |
noun (n.) That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion. | |
noun (n.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc. | |
noun (n.) A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt. | |
verb (v. t.) To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains. |
demain | noun (n.) Rule; management. |
noun (n.) See Demesne. |
detain | noun (n.) Detention. |
verb (v. t.) To keep back or from; to withhold. | |
verb (v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident. | |
verb (v. t.) To hold or keep in custody. |
digitain | noun (n.) Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as the "French extract," the "German extract," etc., which differ among themselves in composition and properties. |
noun (n.) A supposedly distinct vegetable principle as the essential ingredient of the extracts. It is a white, crystalline substance, and is regarded as a glucoside. |
domain | noun (n.) Dominion; empire; authority. |
noun (n.) The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively. | |
noun (n.) Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne. | |
noun (n.) Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership. |
drain | noun (n.) The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country. |
noun (n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink. | |
noun (n.) The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of. | |
verb (v. t.) To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie. | |
verb (v. t.) To filter. | |
verb (v. i.) To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off. | |
verb (v. i.) To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain. |
elain | noun (n.) Same as Olein. |
entertain | noun (n.) Entertainment. |
verb (v. t.) To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep. | |
verb (v. t.) To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest. | |
verb (v. t.) To engage the attention of agreeably; to amuse with that which makes the time pass pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain friends with conversation, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To give reception to; to receive, in general; to receive and take into consideration; to admit, treat, or make use of; as, to entertain a proposal. | |
verb (v. t.) To meet or encounter, as an enemy. | |
verb (v. t.) To keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments. | |
verb (v. t.) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce. | |
verb (v. i.) To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously. |
epictetain | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Epictetus, the Roman Stoic philosopher, whose conception of life was to be passionless under whatever circumstances. |
explain | adjective (a.) To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. |
adjective (a.) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible. | |
verb (v. i.) To give an explanation. |
fain | adjective (a.) Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined. |
adjective (a.) Satisfied; contented; also, constrained. | |
adverb (adv.) With joy; gladly; -- with wold. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To be glad ; to wish or desire. |
filigrain | noun (n.) Alt. of Filigrane |
forebrain | noun (n.) The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain. |
fountain | noun (n.) A spring of water issuing from the earth. |
noun (n.) An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament. | |
noun (n.) A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc. | |
noun (n.) The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source. |
fusain | noun (n.) Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement. |
noun (n.) A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, n. 2, and Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal. |
gain | noun (n.) A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam. |
noun (n.) To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living. | |
noun (n.) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize. | |
noun (n.) To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate. | |
noun (n.) To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor. | |
noun (n.) To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage. | |
adjective (a.) Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable. | |
verb (v. t.) That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss. | |
verb (v. t.) The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation. | |
verb (v. i.) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily. |
gainpain | noun (n.) Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier. |
germain | adjective (a.) See Germane. |
grain | noun (v. & n.) See Groan. |
noun (n.) A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food. | |
noun (n.) The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively. | |
noun (n.) Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc. | |
noun (n.) The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram. | |
noun (n.) A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple. | |
noun (n.) The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain. | |
noun (n.) The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc. | |
noun (n.) The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material. | |
noun (n.) The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side. | |
noun (n.) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff. | |
noun (n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4. | |
noun (n.) To yield fruit. | |
noun (n.) To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization; to granulate. | |
noun (n.) A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant. | |
noun (n.) A tine, prong, or fork. | |
noun (n.) One the branches of a valley or of a river. | |
noun (n.) An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points. | |
noun (n.) A blade of a sword, knife, etc. | |
noun (n.) A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core. | |
adjective (a.) Temper; natural disposition; inclination. | |
adjective (a.) A sort of spice, the grain of paradise. | |
verb (v. t.) To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains. | |
verb (v. t.) To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.). |
grosgrain | adjective (a.) Of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise. |
hindbrain | noun (n.) The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the epencephalon only. |
hogchain | noun (n.) A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging. |
incertain | noun (n.) Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady. |
ingrain | noun (n.) An ingrain fabric, as a carpet. |
adjective (a.) Dyed with grain, or kermes. | |
adjective (a.) Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. | |
verb (v. t.) To dye with or in grain or kermes. | |
verb (v. t.) To dye in the grain, or before manufacture. | |
verb (v. t.) To work into the natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply. |
interbrain | noun (n.) See Thalamencephalon. |
jain | noun (n.) Alt. of Jaina |
kain | noun (n.) Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord. |
lackbrain | noun (n.) One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person. |
legerdemain | noun (n.) Sleight of hand; a trick of sleight of hand; hence, any artful deception or trick. |
madbrain | noun (n.) A rash or hot-headed person. |
adjective (a.) Hot-headed; rash. |
main | noun (n.) A hand or match at dice. |
noun (n.) A stake played for at dice. | |
noun (n.) The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard. | |
noun (n.) A match at cockfighting. | |
noun (n.) A main-hamper. | |
noun (v.) principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser ones; esp. (Engin.), a principal pipe leading to or from a reservoir; as, a fire main. | |
adjective (a.) Very or extremely strong. | |
adjective (a.) Vast; huge. | |
adjective (a.) Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer. | |
adjective (a.) Principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc. | |
adjective (a.) Important; necessary. | |
adjective (a.) Very; extremely; as, main heavy. | |
verb (v.) Strength; force; might; violent effort. | |
verb (v.) The chief or principal part; the main or most important thing. | |
verb (v.) The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. ; the high sea; the ocean. | |
verb (v.) The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland. |
melain | noun (n.) The dark coloring matter of the liquid of the cuttlefish. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SWAŻN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (swai) - Words That Begins with swai:
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (swa) - Words That Begins with swa:
swabbing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swab |
swab | noun (n.) To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship. |
noun (n.) A kind of mop for cleaning floors, the desks of vessels, etc., esp. one made of rope-yarns or threads. | |
noun (n.) A bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle, for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying medicaments to deep-seated parts, etc. | |
noun (n.) An epaulet. | |
noun (n.) A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease. | |
noun (n.) A sponge, or other suitable substance, attached to a long rod or handle, for cleaning the bore of a firearm. |
swabber | noun (n.) One who swabs a floor or desk. |
noun (n.) Formerly, an interior officer on board of British ships of war, whose business it was to see that the ship was kept clean. | |
noun (n.) Same as Swobber, 2. | |
verb (v. t.) To swab. |
swad | noun (n.) A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease. |
noun (n.) A clown; a country bumpkin. | |
noun (n.) A lump of mass; also, a crowd. | |
noun (n.) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam. |
swaddle | noun (n.) Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band. |
verb (v. t.) To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby. | |
verb (v. t.) To beat; to cudgel. |
swaddling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swaddle |
() a. & n. from Swaddle, v. |
swaddlebill | noun (n.) The shoveler. |
swaddler | noun (n.) A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. |
swagging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swag |
swag | noun (n.) A swaying, irregular motion. |
noun (n.) A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle. | |
noun (n.) A tramping bushman's luggage, rolled up either in canvas or in a blanket so as to form a long bundle, and carried on the back or over the shoulder; -- called also a bluey, or a drum. | |
noun (n.) Any bundle of luggage similarly rolled up; hence, luggage in general. | |
verb (v. i.) To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing. | |
verb (v. i.) To sink down by its weight; to sag. | |
verb (v. i.) To tramp carrying a swag. |
swagbelly | noun (n.) A prominent, overhanging belly. |
noun (n.) Any large tumor developed in the abdomen, and neither fluctuating nor sonorous. |
swaging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swage |
swage | noun (n.) A tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge. |
verb (v. t. & i.) See Assuage. | |
verb (v. t.) To shape by means of a swage; to fashion, as a piece of iron, by forcing it into a groove or mold having the required shape. |
swaggering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swagger |
swagger | noun (n.) The act or manner of a swaggerer. |
noun (n.) A swagman. | |
verb (v. i.) To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner. | |
verb (v. i.) To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully. | |
verb (v. t.) To bully. |
swaggerer | noun (n.) One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow. |
swaggy | adjective (a.) Inclined to swag; sinking, hanging, or leaning by its weight. |
swale | noun (n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen. |
noun (n.) A gutter in a candle. | |
verb (v. i. & t.) To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v. |
swallet | noun (n.) Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; -- so called among tin miners. |
swallow | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. |
noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift. | |
noun (n.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves. | |
noun (n.) The act of swallowing. | |
noun (n.) The gullet, or esophagus; the throat. | |
noun (n.) Taste; relish; inclination; liking. | |
noun (n.) Capacity for swallowing; voracity. | |
noun (n.) As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water. | |
noun (n.) That which ingulfs; a whirlpool. | |
verb (v. t.) To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up. | |
verb (v. t.) To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly. | |
verb (v. t.) To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up. | |
verb (v. t.) To occupy; to take up; to employ. | |
verb (v. t.) To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume. | |
verb (v. t.) To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions. | |
verb (v. t.) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult. | |
verb (v. i.) To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow. |
swallowing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swallow |
swallower | noun (n.) One who swallows; also, a glutton. |
swallowfish | noun (n.) The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins. |
swallowtail | noun (n.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail. |
noun (n.) A species of willow. | |
noun (n.) An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also priestcap. | |
noun (n.) A swallow-tailed coat. | |
noun (n.) An arrow. | |
noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of large and handsome butterflies, belonging to Papilio and allied genera, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe. |
swallowwort | noun (n.) See Celandine. |
noun (n.) A poisonous plant (Vincetoxicum officinale) of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort. |
swamp | noun (n.) Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore. |
verb (v. t.) To plunge or sink into a swamp. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water. | |
verb (v. t.) Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck. | |
verb (v. i.) To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties. | |
verb (v. i.) To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked. |
swamping | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swamp |
swampy | adjective (a.) Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as, swampy land. |
swan | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have a large and strong beak and a long neck, and are noted for their graceful movements when swimming. Most of the northern species are white. In literature the swan was fabled to sing a melodious song, especially at the time of its death. |
noun (n.) Fig.: An appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace and melody; as Shakespeare is called the swan of Avon. | |
noun (n.) The constellation Cygnus. |
swang | noun (n.) A swamp. |
() imp. of Swing. | |
(Archaic imp.) of Swing |
swanherd | noun (n.) One who tends or marks swans; as, the royal swanherd of England. |
swanimote | noun (n.) See Swainmote. |
swankie | noun (n.) Alt. of Swanky |
swanky | noun (n.) An active and clever young fellow. |
swanlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a swan. |
swanmark | noun (n.) A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan. |
swannery | noun (n.) A place where swans are bred. |
swanny | adjective (a.) Swanlike; as, a swanny glossiness of the neck. |
swanpan | noun (n.) The Chinese abacus; a schwanpan. |
swanskin | noun (n.) The act of a swan with the down or the feathers on. |
noun (n.) A species of soft flannel, thick and warm. |
swapping | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swap |
swap | noun (n.) A blow; a stroke. |
noun (n.) An exchange; a barter. | |
noun (n.) Hastily. | |
verb (v. i.) To strike; -- with off. | |
verb (v. i.) To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop. | |
verb (v. t.) To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently. | |
verb (v. t.) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap. |
swape | noun (n.) See Sweep, n., 12. |
sward | noun (n.) Skin; covering. |
noun (n.) The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward. |
swarding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sward |
swarded | adjective (a.) Covered with sward. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Sward |
swardy | adjective (a.) Covered with sward or grass. |
swarf | noun (n.) The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet. |
verb (v. i.) To grow languid; to faint. |
swarm | noun (n.) A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion. |
noun (n.) Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive. | |
noun (n.) Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites. | |
verb (v. i.) To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. | |
verb (v. i.) To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer. | |
verb (v. i.) To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude. | |
verb (v. i.) To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion. | |
verb (v. i.) To abound; to be filled (with). | |
verb (v. i.) To breed multitudes. | |
verb (v. t.) To crowd or throng. |
swarming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swarm |