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To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge. Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him. Shak.

To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively. [Colloq.] Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down whole with him for truth. L' Estrange. -- To go far. (a) To go to a distance. (b) To have much weight or influence. -- To go for. (a) To go in quest of. (b) To represent; to pass for.

To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets. [Low] L'Estrange.

To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. Supper gobbled up in haste. Swift.

Literally, a fly swallower; hence, once who keeps his mouth open; a boor; a silly and credulous person.

That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl. And all the way, most like a brutish beast,gorge, that all did him detest. Spenser.

To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. Shak.

To swallow greedily; to gulp down. [Obs.]

That which swallows; the gullet. [Obs.] Shak.

To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow. He does not swallow, but he gulps it down. Cowper. The old man . . . glibly gulped down the whole narrative. Fielding. To gulp up, to throw up from the stomach; to disgorge.

To swallow up. [Obs.]

To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. [Obs.] L'Estrange. Dryden.

To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently. Those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar. Milton. Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise. Roscommon. To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey. Gay.

te. Shak. None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle . . . or swallow them. Dryden.

Like or pertaining to the swallows.

A genus of birds including the swallows and martins.

eightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness. [Written also hydrophoby.]

To swallow up or overwhelm in, or as in, a gulf; to cast into a gulf. See Engulf. A river large . . . Passed underneath ingulfed. Milton.

To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle. Cleveland.

The act of swallowing greedily or immoderately; that which is so swallowed. E. Darwin. He drowned his stomach and senses with a large draught and ingurgitation of wine. Bacon.