AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
swanskin: the act of a swan with the down or the feathers on.-a species of soft flannel, thick and warm.
swap: to strike; -- with off.-to exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop.-to fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently.-to beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.-a blow; a stroke.-an exchange; a barter.-hastily.
sward: 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.
swarf: to grow languid; to faint.-the grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet.
swarm: 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.
swarmspore: one of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algae and fungi; a zoospore.-one of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; -- called also zoospore.
swart: sward.-of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.-gloomy; malignant.-to make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part.
swartback: the black-backed gull (larus marinus); -- called also swarbie.
swarth: swart; swarthy.-an apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.-sward; short grass.-see swath.
swarthily: in a swarthy manner; with a tawny hue; duskily.
swarthiness: the quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness.
swarthy: being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny; swart; as, swarthy faces.-to make swarthy.
swash: 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.
swashbuckler: a bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer.
swashy: soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.
swath: 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.
swathe: to bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers.-a bandage; a band; a swath.
swather: a device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.
sway: to move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.-to influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide.-to cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion.-to hoist; as, to sway up the yards.-to be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.-to move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.-to have weight or influence.-to bear sway; to rule; to govern.-the act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon.-influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires.-preponderance; turn or cast of balance.-rule; dominion; control.-a switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
sway-backed: having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; -- said of horses and other animals.
swayed: of sway-bent down, and hollow in the back; sway-backed; -- said of a horse.
swaying: of sway-an injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses.
sweal: to melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame.-to singe; to scorch; to swale; as, to sweal a pig by singeing off the hair.
swear: to affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to god for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also, to affirm solemnly by some sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the bible, the koran, etc.-to give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner.-to make an appeal to god in an irreverant manner; to use the name of god or sacred things profanely; to call upon god in imprecation; to curse.-to utter or affirm with a solemn appeal to god for the truth of the declaration; to make (a promise, threat, or resolve) under oath.-to put to an oath; to cause to take an oath; to administer an oath to; -- ofetn followed by in or into; as, to swear witnesses; to swear a jury; to swear in an officer; he was sworn into office.-to declare or charge upon oath; as, he swore treason against his friend.-to appeal to by an oath.
swearer: one who swears; one who calls god to witness for the truth of his declaration.-a profane person; one who uses profane language.
sweat: of sweat-to excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.-fig.: to perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.-to emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.-to cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.-to emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.-to unite by heating, after the application of soldier.-to get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.-the fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. see perspiration.-the act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.-moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.-the sweating sickness.-a short run by a race horse in exercise.
sweater: one who sweats.-one who, or that which, causes to sweat-a sudorific.-a woolen jacket or jersey worn by athletes.-an employer who oppresses his workmen by paying low wages.
sweaty: moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment.-consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat.-causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult.
swede: a native or inhabitant of sweden.-a swedish turnip. see under turnip.
swedenborgian: one who holds the doctrines of the new jerusalem church, as taught by emanuel swedenborg, a swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. he taught that the lord jesus christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the godhead, is the one only god, and that there is a spiritual sense to the scriptures, which he (swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw the correspondence between natural and spiritual things.-of or pertaining to swedenborg or his views.
sweeny: an atrophy of the muscles of the shoulder in horses; also, atrophy of any muscle in horses.
sweep: to pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney. used also figuratively.-to drive or carry along or off with a broom or a brush, or as if with a broom; to remove by, or as if by, brushing; as, to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes.-to brush against or over; to rub lightly along.-to carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.-to strike with a long stroke.-to draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net.-to pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope.-to clean rooms, yards, etc., or to clear away dust, dirt, litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like.-to brush swiftly over the surface of anything; to pass with switness and force, as if brushing the surface of anything; to move in a stately manner; as, the wind sweeps across the plain; a woman sweeps through a drawing-room.-to pass over anything comprehensively; to range through with rapidity; as, his eye sweeps through space.-the act of sweeping.-the compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.-the compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.-the compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep.-violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease.-direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the sweep of a compass.-direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the like, away from a rectlinear line.-one who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney sweeper.-a movable templet for making molds, in loam molding.-the mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of a circle.-a large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.-the almond furnace.-a long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.-in the game of casino, a pairing or combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.-the sweeping of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
sweeper: one who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.
sweeping: of sweep-cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation.
sweepings: things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.
sweepstake: a winning of all the stakes or prizes.-a complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep.
sweepstakes: a winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.-the whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed.-a race for all the sums staked or prizes offered.
sweepwasher: one who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used.
sweet: having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.-pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.-pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer.-pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.-fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water.-not changed from a sound or wholesome state. specifically: (a) not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.-plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.-that which is sweet to the taste; -- used chiefly in the plural.-confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc.-home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.-that which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume.-that which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life.-one who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment.-sweetly.-to sweeten.
sweet-breasted: having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale.  cf. breast, n., 6.
sweet-sop: a kind of custard apple (anona squamosa). see under custard.
sweetbread: either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. the sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. see pancreas, and thymus.-the pancreas.
sweetbrier: a kind of rose (rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. the small-flowered sweetbrier is rosa micrantha.
sweeten: to make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.-to make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.-to make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.-to make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.-to soften to the eye; to make delicate.-to make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.-to make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.-to restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.-to become sweet.
sweetener: one who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.
sweetmeat: fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.-the paint used in making patent leather.-a boat shell (crepidula fornicata) of the american coast.
sweetness: the quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
sweetwater: a variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; -- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.
sweetweed: a name for two tropical american weeds (capraria biflora, and scoparia dulcis) of the figwort family.
sweetwood: the true laurel (laurus nobilis.)-the timber of the tree oreodaphne leucoxylon, growing in jamaica. the name is also applied to the timber of several other related trees.
swell: to grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.-to increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish.-to rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.-to be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.-to be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.-to be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style.-to protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.-to be elated; to rise arrogantly.-to grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.-to become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount.-to act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big.-to increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population.-to aggravate; to heighten.-to raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness.-to augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note.-the act of swelling.-gradual increase.-increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance.-increase in height; elevation; rise.-increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound.-increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.-a gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells.-a wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor.-a gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound; the crescendo and diminuendo combined; -- generally indicated by the sign.-a showy, dashing person; a dandy.-having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood.
swellfish: any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
swelling: of swell-the act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride.-a protuberance; a prominence-an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling.
swelt: imp. of swell.-to die; to perish.-to faint; to swoon.-to overpower, as with heat; to cause to faint; to swelter.
swelter: to be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat.-to welter; to soak.-to oppress with heat.-to exude, like sweat.
swerve: to stray; to wander; to rope.-to go out of a straight line; to deflect.-to wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.-to bend; to incline.-to climb or move upward by winding or turning.-to turn aside.
swietenia: a genus of meliaceous trees consisting of one species (sweitenia mahogoni), the mahogany tree.
swift: moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt.-of short continuance; passing away quickly.-swiftly.-the current of a stream.-any one of numerous species of small, long-winged, insectivorous birds of the family micropodidae. in form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds.-any one of several species of lizards, as the pine lizard.-the ghost moth. see under ghost.-a reel, or turning instrument, for winding yarn, thread, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural.-the main card cylinder of a flax-carding machine.
swifter: a rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it.-a rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides.-the forward shroud of a lower mast.-to tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer.
swiftlet: any one of numerous species of small east indian and asiatic swifts of the genus collocalia. some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. see illust. under edible.
swiftness: the quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
swig: to drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider.-to suck.-a long draught.-a tackle with ropes which are not parallel.-a beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc.-to castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off.-to pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.
swill: to wash; to drench.-to drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily.-to inebriate; to fill with drink.-to drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess.-the wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings.-large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.
swim: to be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.-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.
swimmer: one who swims.-a protuberance on the leg of a horse.-a swimming bird; one of the natatores.
swimmeret: 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.
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.-being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.-vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head.
swimmingly: in an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously.
swindle: to cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.-the act or process of swindling; a cheat.
swindler: one who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.
swine: 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: a variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox.
swing: to move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.-to sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open.-to use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. see swing, n., 3.-to turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.-to be hanged.-to cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.-to give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business.-to admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.-the act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.-swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.-a line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise.-influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.-capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.-free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.
swinge: see singe.-to beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish.-to move as a lash; to lash.-the sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing.-power; sway; influence.
swingebuckler: a swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer.
swingel: the swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.