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To be filled with swimming animals. [Obs.] [Streams] that swim full of small fishes. Chaucer.

A swimming bird; one of the natatores. Little swimmer (Zoöl.), a phalarope.

everal pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.

A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and Doliolum.

The peculiar free swimming larva of Balanoglossus. See Illust. in Append.

A division of swimming birds including those that have totipalmate feet.

The act of swimming over. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of swimming across, as a river.

The umbrellalike disk, or swimming bell, of a jellyfish.

An extensive artificial group of birds including the wading, swimming, and cursorial birds.

bivalve mollusk in the state when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming.

Dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness. Quian.

allied genera of the family Hydrachnidæ, usually having the legs fringed and adapted for swimming. They are often red or red and black in color, and while young are parasites of fresh-water insects and mussels. Called also water tick, and water spider.

Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species (Crossopus fodiens, and C. ciliatus) are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew (Neosorex palustris), is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits.…

birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings. Deut. xxxii. 11.

Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as to form a pair of winglike swimming organs; -- said of the pteropod mollusks.