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Resembling a swan.

A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan. [Eng.] Encyc. Brit.

A place where swans are bred. "The largest swannery in England." Encyc. Brit.

Swanlike; as, a swanny glossiness of the neck. Richardson.

The Chinese abacus; a schwanpan. S. W. Williams.

The act of a swan with the down or the feathers on.

A tribe of American Indians including many of the Pueblos of New Mexico and adjacent regions.

noise; to make the sound of a tense string pulled and suddenly let go; as, the bowstring twanged.

To twang. While the twangling violin Struck up with Soldier-laddie. Tennyson.

To cause to make a sharp twanging sound; to twang, or twangle. Addison.

See Note under Tea, n., 1.

A yardstick. Tennyson.

Am Austrian silver coin equivalent to 20 kreutzers, or about 10 cents.

Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.

Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.

To wander; to stray. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc. Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a circular form.

Wandering; straying from the right way.

The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. "The aberration of youth." Hall. "Aberrations from theory." Burke.

A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.