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To sink down by its weight; to sag. Sir H. Wotton. I swag as a fat person's belly swaggeth as he goeth. Palsgrave.

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.…

th 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]

See Assuage.

A lewd man; also, a bully. [Obs.] Dryden.

To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage. Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants. Burke.

One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.

Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow." L'Estrange.

Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag. [Polit. slang, U. S.]

A swage or die used for shaping metals.

Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden.

To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward. For the last fortnight there have been prodigious shoals of volunteers gone over to bully the French, upon hearing the peace was just signing. Tatler.