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To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts. "Quaffed off the muscadel." Shak. They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy. Milton.

gain; to draw in, or imbibe, again what has been effused, extravasated, or thrown off; to swallow up again; as, to reabsorb chyle, lymph, etc.; -- used esp. of fluids.

To swallow again; to swallow back. Tides at highest mark regorge the flood. DRyden.

The act of swallowing again; reabsorption.

The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together.

To swallow up. Now lifted by the tide, and now resorbed. Young.

Swallowing up. Wodhull.

ferior spines of some of the vertebræ, as certain South African snakes (Dasypelits) which swallow birds' eggs and use these gular teeth to crush them.

Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.

To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed. "Cattle free to ruminate." Wordsworth.

The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally oberved as a morbid phenomenon in man.

The esculent swallow. See under Esculent.

A tern; the sea swallow. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also sgraye.]

ys. Sir I. Newton. His beard, a good palm's length, at least, . . . Shot sideways, like a swallow's wings. Longfellow.

A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.

To sup or swallow. [Obs.] Wyclif.

uried or covered, as by a fluid; to be merged; hence, to be completely included. Some say swallows submerge in ponds. Gent. Mag.

To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up. As waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn. Dryden. To suck in, to draw into the mouth; to imbibe; to absorb. -- To suck out, to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction. -- To suck up, to draw into the mouth; to draw up by suction absorption.

n down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame. [Written also swale.] Sir W. Scott.

To swallow. [Obs.] Chaucer.