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The act of shoving; a forcible push. I rested . . . and then gave the boat another shove. Swift.

Showy; ostentatious. Swift.

murmurs, fill the frighted town. Dryden. Shriek owl. (Zoöl.) (a) The screech owl. (b) The swift; -- so called from its cry.

, doubt, or the like. They grin, they shrug. They bow, they snarl, they snatch, they hug. Swift.

he cloth to the other between the threads of the warp. Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feathered hours. Sandys.

of the army . . . were no longer shy, but would come up to my very feet without starting. Swift.

o, obliquely; askew. A fellow nailed up maps . . . some sideling, and others upside down. Swift.

with one side foremost; to move sidewise; as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening. Swift. He . . . then sidled close to the astonished girl. Sir W. Scott.

t should signify to the Protestants of Ireland that want of silver is not to be remedied. Swift.

ts aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison. A good swift simile, but something currish. Shak.

ng, and you happen to be out of pocket, sink the money, and take up the goods on account. Swift.

i., or VI. To be at six and seven or at sixes and sevens, to be in disorder. Bacon. Shak. Swift.

r size. Men of a less size and quality. L'Estrange. The middling or lower size of people. Swift.

rth; and as they sweep, On sounding skates, a thousand different ways, In circling poise, swift as the winds, along, The then gay land is maddended all to joy. Thomson. Roller skate. See under Roller.

or keeping it in form while roasting. Meat well stuck with skewers to make it look round. Swift.

s great wisdom and skill at negotiations, diverted Alexander from the conquest of Athens. Swift. Where patience her sweet skill imparts. Keble.

To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of. Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean. Hazlitt.

another by more than a degree at once. Busby. Skip kennel, a lackey; a footboy. [Slang.] Swift. -- Skip mackerel. (Zoöl.) See Bluefish, 1.

Moving a short space in a relatively long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as, a slow stream; a slow motion.

superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter. Of state affairs you can not smatter. Swift.