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t or a blow. Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, eludes he eager swain. Pope. The transition from fetichism to polytheism seems a gradual process of which the stages elude close definition. Tylor.

To give a brown color to; to imbrown. Summer suns embrown the laboring swain. Fenton.

large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty. Give enlargement to the swain. Shak.

of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat. Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood. Pope.

phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself. Chaucer. The swain replied, "It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise." Pope.

bookplate or the like. [Written also imprese and impress.] My impresa to your lordship; a swain Flying to a laurel for shelter. J. Webster.

The two middle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also boatswain, and marline-spike bird. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull (Megalestris skua).

Having no mistrust or suspicion. The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith.

A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.

Playing on a musical pipe. "Lowing herds and piping swains." Swift.

y wind. Ps. cvii. 25. Æneas . . . employs his pains, In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains. Dryden.

And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, Their scattered cottages, and ample plains Dryden. Teach the glad hours to scatter, as they fly, Soft quiet, gentle love, and endless joy. Prior.

The boatswain of a Lascar or East Ondian crew.

s by sighs; to utter in or with sighs. They . . . sighed forth proverbs. Shak. The gentle swain . . . sighs back her grief. Hoole.

Any jager gull; especially, the Megalestris skua; -- called also boatswain.

To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely. Home the swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold. Thomson.

A clown; a country bumpkin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "Country swains, and silly swads." Greene. There was one busy fellow was their leader, A blunt, squat swad, but lower than yourself. B. Jonson.

See Swainmote.

See Swainmote. [Obs.]

A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain. [India] Malcom.