English English Dictionary

To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.

To be overflowed or drenched.

Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.

To be filled with swimming animals.

To pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a stream.

To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river.

To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.

The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming.

The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.

A part of a stream much frequented by fish.

To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims.

A moaning or sighing sound or noise; a sough.

One who swims.

A protuberance on the leg of a horse.

A swimming bird; one of the natatores.

One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.

of Swim

That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.

Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes.

The act of one who swims.