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So. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship. [Spelt also swob.]

To swab. [R.]

A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease. [Prov. Eng.] Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell -- thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow. Blount.

Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band. They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison.

The shoveler. [Local, U.S.]

A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. Shipley.

from Swaddle, v. Swaddling band, Swaddling cloth, or Swaddling clout, a band or cloth wrapped round an infant, especially round a newborn infant. Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. Luke ii. 12.

To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing. [Prov. Eng.]

Having a prominent, overhanging belly. Shak.

A prominent, overhanging belly. Smollett.

workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge. Swage block, a perforated block of iron, having grooved sides and adapted for use in heading bolts and swaging objects of large size.…

To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner. A man who swaggers about London clubs. Beaconsfield.

One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow. Shak.

A swagman. [Australia]

Inclined to swag; sinking, hanging, or leaning by its weight. Sir T. Browne.

A bushman carrying a swag and traveling on foot; -- called also swagsman, swagger, and swaggie.

A swagman. [Australia]

A servant. [Obs.] Him behoves serve himself that has no swain. Chaucer.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant. "An ungentle and swainish beast." Milton. -- Swain"ish*ness, n. Emerson.