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525 words match “SWA”

SWANG n. 2 definitions
A swamp. [Prov. Eng.]
SWANHERD n.
One who tends or marks swans; as, the royal swanherd of England.
SWANIMOTE n.
See Swainmote.
SWANKIE; SWANKY n.
An active and clever young fellow. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
SWANLIKE a.
Resembling a swan.
SWANMARK n.
A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan. [Eng.] Encyc. Brit.
SWANNERY n.
A place where swans are bred. "The largest swannery in England." Encyc. Brit.
SWANNY a.
Swanlike; as, a swanny glossiness of the neck. Richardson.
SWANPAN n.
The Chinese abacus; a schwanpan. S. W. Williams.
SWANSKIN n. 2 definitions
The act of a swan with the down or the feathers on.
SWAP v. 7 definitions
To strike; -- with off. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "Swap off his head!" Chaucer.
SWAPE n.
See Sweep, n., 12.
SWARD n. 3 definitions
surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf. The sward was trim as any garden lawn. Tennyson. Sward pork, bacon in large fitches. [Prov. Eng.]
SWARD-CUTTER n. 2 definitions
A plow for turning up grass land.
SWARDED a.
Covered with sward. Mrs. Browning.
SWARDY a.
Covered with sward or grass.
SWARE n.
imp. of Swear. [Obs. or Poetic] Cophetua sware a royal oath. Tennyson.
SWARF v. 2 definitions
To grow languid; to faint. [Scot.] "To swarf for very hunger." Sir W. Scott.
SWARM v. 10 definitions
ee Shin. [Colloq.] At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe.
SWARMSPORE n. 2 definitions
One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algæ and fungi; a zoöspore.
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