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surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf. The sward was trim as any garden lawn. Tennyson. Sward pork, bacon in large fitches. [Prov. Eng.]

A plow for turning up grass land.

Covered with sward. Mrs. Browning.

Covered with sward or grass.

Turf green with grass.

ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward. Like an uninstructed bowler, . . . who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it. Sir W. Scott.

a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. -- Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New Amsterdam played this game.

A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field. Ray.

A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard. [Written also coulter.]

omposing the gummy matter of flax and hemp and setting the fibrous part, by exposure on a sward to dew, rain, and sunshine.

Declivous; descending; sloping. "A downhill greensward." Congrewe.

Mica. See Mica. Woodsward. Glimmer gowk, an owl. [Prov. Eng.] Tennyson.

cus and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground. Milton. The sloping of the moonlit sward Was damask work, and deep inlay Of braided blooms. Tennyson.

A meadow or sward land; a grassy field. "Plow-torn leas." Shak. The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. Gray.

retty flower; a pretty poem. This is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever Ran on the greensward. Shak.

herent when wet. That finer matter, called sand, is no other than very small pebbles. Woodsward.

Fine clay or ocher made up into balls, used for marking sheep. [Eng.] Woodsward.

f the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward. She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. Collins.

See Sward. [R.] Milton.

To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.