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ng taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. Goldsmith.

Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero. Sir Thopas wex [grew] a doughty swain. Chaucer. Doughty families, hugging old musty quarrels to their hearts, buffet each other from generation to generation. Motley.

To clear, by forcing away what is contained. To drive the country, force the swains away. Dryden.

A sharp angle in any surface of wainscoting or other woodwork; the upright sides which flank any paneled work, as the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back. Gwilt.

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.

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

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

The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.

In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. Gray.

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.

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

Tightly drawn; or (perhaps) intricate. [Very rare] Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain, Which are too intrinse to unloose. Shak.

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).

Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak.

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

A sunken compartment with raised margins, molded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.

Wainscoting.

A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms. No passages of love Betwixt us twain henceforward evermore. Tennyson.

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