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yrops), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also porgee, paugy, porgy, scuppaug.

Any swimming bird frequenting the sea; a sea fowl.

A swimming leg (of an insect) having a fringe of hairs on the margin.

An order of pelagic Hydrozoa including species which form complex free-swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds, some of which act as floats or as swimming organs, others as feeding or nutritive zooids, and others as reproductive zooids. See Illust. under Physallia, and Porpita.…

places in Southern India and the East Indies. Its pithlike stem is used for making hats, swimming-jackets, etc. [Written also solah, shola.]

(Zoöl.), a sea duck (Tachyeres cinereus), native of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego, which swims and dives with great agility, but which, when full grown, is incapable of flight, owing to its very small wings. Called also loggerhead, race horse, and side wheel duck.

A division of swimming birds in which all four toes are united by a broad web. It includes the pelicans, cormorants, gannets, and others.

ccomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.; also: (Rowing)

Swimming above; floating on the surface; as, oil supernatant on water. SUPERNATANT Su`per*na"tant, n. (Chem.)

imp. of Swim.

a large and strong beak and a long neck, and are noted for their graceful movements when swimming. Most of the northern species are white. In literature the swan was fabled to sing a melodious song, especially at the time of its death.

imp. of Swim. Shak.

imp. & p. p. of Swim.

Yoked in, or as in, a team. [Obs.] Let their teamed fishes softly swim. Spenser.

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

Among or in the midst of; -- used to denote passage; as, a fish swims through the water; the light glimmers through a thicket.

A genus of transparent marine annelids which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or forked finlike organs (parapodia). This genus is the type of the order, or suborder, Gymnocopa.

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.