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body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate. I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer, in case of exsuction of the air. Boyle.

The European swift. [Prov. Eng.]

To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish. I had swinged him soundly. Shak. And swinges his own vices in his son. C. Dryden.

A swashbuckler; a bully; a roiserer. [Obs.] Shak.

Huge; very large. [Colloq.] Arbuthnot. Byron. -- Swinge"ing*ly, adv. Dryden.

The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.

One who swings or whirls.

To swing for pleasure. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

A swingletree. De Quincey.

The thrasher, or fox shark. See Thrasher.

A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.

from Swingle, v. t. Swingling tow, the coarse part of flax, separated from the finer by swingling and hatcheling.

The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened; the whiffletree.

In a state of swinging.

The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.

Gait; bearing. The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men. Harper's Mag.

tempt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water.

he cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass which connect the handle and swingel. Wright.

A horse; hence, a support or frame. Cheval glass, a mirror swinging in a frame, and large enough to reflect the full leght figure.

A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinginng on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty. The cradle that received thee at thy birth. Cowper. No sooner was I crept out of my cradle B…