English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Swimming (a.)

Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.

Swimming (n.)

Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head.

Swimmingly (adv.)

In an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously.

Swimmingness (n.)

Act or state of swimming; suffusion.

Swinck (v. & n.)

See Swink.

Swindle (v. t.)

To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.

Swindle (n.)

The act or process of swindling; a cheat.

Swindled (imp. & p. p.)

of Swindle

Swindler (n.)

One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.

Swindlery (n.)

Swindling; rougery.

Swindling (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Swindle

Swine (n.)

Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog.

Swine-pox (n.)

A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox.

Swinebread (n.)

The truffle.

Swinecase (n.)

A hogsty.

Swinecote (n.)

A hogsty.

Swinecrue (n.)

A hogsty.

Swineery (n.)

Same as Piggery.

Swinefish (n.)

The wolf fish.

Swineherd (n.)

A keeper of swine.