| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| swage | verb t. & i. | See Assuage., A tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other 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., To shape by means of a swage; to fashion, as a piece of iron, by forcing it into a groove or mold having the required shape. |
| swain | noun | A servant., A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; — chiefly in poetry. |
| swaip | verb i. | To walk proudly; to sweep along. |
| swale | noun | A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen., To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v., A gutter in a candle. |
| swamp | noun | Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore., To plunge or sink into a swamp., To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water., Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck., To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties., To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked. |
| swang | imp. of Swing., A swamp., of Swing | |
| swape | noun | See Sweep, n., 12. |
| sward | noun | Skin; covering., The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf., To produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward. |
| sware | imp. of Swear., of Swear | |
| swarf | verb i. | To grow languid; to faint., The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet. |
| swarm | verb i. | To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin., A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion., Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive., Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites., To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; — said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer., To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude., To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion., To abound; to be filled (with)., To breed multitudes., To crowd or throng. |
| swart | noun | Sward., Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny., Gloomy; malignant., To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part. |
| swash | verb t. | An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work., Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy., To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place., To fall violently or noisily., To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag., Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water., A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes., Liquid filth; wash; hog mash., A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior., A swaggering fellow; a swasher. |
| swate | imp. of Sweat. | |
| swath | verb t. | A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling., The whole sweep of a scythe, or the whole breadth from which grass or grain is cut by a scythe or a machine, in mowing or cradling; as, to cut a wide swath., A band or fillet; a swathe. |
| swank | imp. | of Swink |