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An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.

Same as 4th Swash, 2.

To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter. As sparkles from the anvil rise, When heavy hammers on the wedge are swayed. Spenser.

A bar attached to the hounds, in the rear of the front axle, so as to slide on the reach as the axle is swung in turning the vehicle.

Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; -- said of horses and other animals.

The horizontal bracing of a bridge, which prevents its swaying.

Bent down, and hollow in the back; sway-backed; -- said of a horse. Shak.

Able to sway. [R.] Rush.

An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses. Crabb.

Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.

Channel in which the tide sets.

ny of two or more narrow paths, of steel, smooth stone, or the like, laid in a public roadway otherwise formed of an inferior pavement, as cobblestones, to provide an easy way for wheels.

A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.

Two; twain. [Obs.] Spenser.

Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two leaves, as the species of Listera and of Liparis. [Written also twyblade.]

Serving to connect at will one pipe or channel with either of two others; as, a two-way cock.

Pathless. [R.] "The smooth, unpathwayed plain." Wordsworth.

Not capable of being swayed. Shak.

Not used to travel; as, colts that are unwayed. [Obs.] Suckling.

To sway or swing aloft; as, to upsway a club. [R.] Sir W. Scott.