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Taste; relish; inclination; liking.
Capacity for swallowing; voracity.
As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water.
That which ingulfs; a whirlpool.
Having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow-tailed coat.
United by dovetailing; dovetailed.
of Swallow
One who swallows; also, a glutton.
The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.
of Swallow
A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
A species of willow.
An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also priestcap.
A swallow-tailed coat.
An arrow.
Any one of numerous species of large and handsome butterflies, belonging to Papilio and allied genera, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe.
See Celandine.
A poisonous plant (Vincetoxicum officinale) of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort.
imp. of Swim.
of Swim