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A West Indian lizard (Celestus occiduus), about a foot long, imagined by the natives to be venomous.

Swill. Arbuthnot.

; sing. Iowa. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians which formerly occupied the region now included in the State of Iowa.

An alcoholic liquor, obtained by distilling the fermented juice of the small black cherry.

A small European fern (Asplenium Ceterach) formerly used in medicine.

A tribe of Indians who, when first known, lived on the Ottawa River. Most of them subsequently migrated to the southwestern shore of Lake Superior.

To overflow. Holinshed.

Wasted or worn out; [Obs.] Drayton.

An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work. Moxon. Swash plate (Mach.), a revolving circular plate, set obliquely on its shaft, and acting as a cam to give a reciprocating motion to a rod in a direction parallel to the shaft.

A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer. Milton.

One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms. Shak.

Swaggering; hectoring. "A swashing and martial outside." Shak.

Same as 4th Swash, 2.

Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash. [Prov. Eng.]

e designs, as Greek fret or meander, are derived from or closely associated with it. The swastika is found in remains from the Bronze Age in various parts of Europe, esp. at Hissarlik (Troy), and was in frequent use as late as the 10th century. It is found in ancient Persia, in India, where both Jains and Buddhists use…

One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used.

Not washed or cleansed; filthy; unclean.

Not washed. [Archaic] "To eat with unwashen hands." Matt. xv. 20.

The wapiti, or wapiti, or American elk.

Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something, as a wash for making the skin fair. Addison.