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To declare or charge upon oath; as, he swore treason against his friend. Johnson.

rom thy commandments. Bk. of Com. Prayer. They swerve from the strict letter of the law. Clarendon. Many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy religion. Atterbury.

Such. [Obs.] Swich things as that I know I will declare. Chaucer.

e Hog. "A great herd of swine." Mark v. 11. Swine grass (Bot.), knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare); -- so called because eaten by swine. -- Swine oat (Bot.), a kind of oat sometimes grown for swine. -- Swine's cress (Bot.), a species of cress of the genus Senebiera (S. Coronopus). -- Swine's head, a dolt; a blockhead.…

The common, or collared, peccary.

A Mexican spinous lizard (Phrynosoma orbiculare) having a head somewhat like that of a toad; -- called also horned toad.

Charge; censure. [Obs.] Clarendon.

outh American monkeys belonging to Callithrix, Chrysothrix, and allied genera; as, the collared teetee (Callithrix torquatus), and the squirrel teetee (Chrysothrix sciurea). Called also pinche, titi, and saimiri. See Squirrel monkey, under Squirrel.

change. The colonel, after all his tergiversations, lost his life in the king's service. Clarendon.

Excessive; extreme; severe. [Colloq.] The terrible coldness of the season. Clarendon.

A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death.

To declare a charge; to protest; to give information; to bear witness; -- with against. O Israel, . . . I will testify against thee. Ps. l. 7. I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. Neh. xiii. 15.

Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition. She was within one month of her time. Clarendon.

One appointed to mark and declare the time of participants in races or other contests.

et. i. 5,6,7. I have a king's oath to the contrary. Shak. Numbers were crowded to death. Clarendon. Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears. Dryden. Go, buckle to the law. Dryden.

ent, as a flute; also, to make a similar noise by any means. "The tootling robin." John Clare.

Collared; having a torques, or distinct colored ring around the neck.

rturing. Torture, whitch had always been deciared illegal, and which had recently been declared illegal even by the servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the last time in England in the month of May,

rection of; in behalf of. This was the first alarm England received towards any trouble. Clarendom.

. Being transplanted out of his cold, barren diocese of St. David into a warmer climate. Clarendon.