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A sailor; a seaman. [Colloq.] Swift.

Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift. And check the tardy flight of time. Sandys. Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave. Prior.

Idle talk or chat; trifling talk; prate. [They] told the tattle of the day. Swift.

To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Swift.

Relating to a system for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.

That by means of which a thing is done; means; instrument. [Obs.] Swift.

from me. Addison. I'll be this abject thing no more. Granville. I have a thing in prose. Swift.

Fully accomplished; thoroughplaced. [R.] Swift.

Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations. Swift.

aucer. I am glad he hath so much youth and vigor left, of which he hath not been thrifty. Swift.

l. "The other two, whom they had thrown out, they were content should enjoy their exile." Swift. "The bill was thrown out." Swift. (b) To utter; to give utterance to; to speak; as, to throw out insinuation or observation. "She throws out thrilling shrieks." Spenser. (c) To distance; to leave behind. Addison. (d) To cau…

strike or fall with a heavy blow; to pound. A watchman at midnight thumps with his pole. Swift.

To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air. [Obs.] Swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the night. Milton.

ing of the tide. -- Tidal wave. (a) See Tide wave, under Tide. Cf. 4th Bore. (b) A vast, swift wave caused by an earthquake or some extraordinary combination of natural causes. It rises far above high-water mark and is often very destructive upon low-lying coasts.

watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties. Swift.

one at other's breast. Shak. But in this tournament can no man tilt. Tennyson. The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the Pope.

To strike slightly; to tap. A third rogue tips me by the elbow. Swift.

A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.

A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk. Swift.

Print my preface in such form as, in the booksellers' phrase, will make a sixpenny touch. Swift.