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The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.

Appearance; display; exhibition.

The hedg sparrow. [Prov. Eng.]

A winding so arranged as to divide the armature current and lead a portion of it around the field-magnet coils; -- opposed to series winding. --Shunt"-wound` (#), a.

A heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary. [Slang.]

Quality of being sinewy.

Same as Sewen.

See Sowens.

The state of being spewy.

Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings. Spur-winged goose (Zoöl.), any one of several species of long-legged African geese of the genus Plectropterus and allied genera, having a strong spur on the bend of the wing, as the Gambo goose (P. Gambensis) and the Egyptian, or Nile, goose (Alopochen Ægyptiaca). --…

ise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.

A stem-winding watch. [Colloq.]

Wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem-winding watch.

A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm. Longfellow.

A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.

The act of scattering or spreading.

See Swink.

To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property. Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three hundred livres. Carlyle.

One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.

Swindling; rougery. [R.] "Swindlery and blackguardism." Carlyle.