Vocabulary : Swale to Swallowwort

Swale : 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.
Swallet : Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; -- so called among tin miners.
Swallow : Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. ;; Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift. ;; The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves. ;; To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink. ;; To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up. ;; To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly. ;; To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up. ;; To occupy; to take up; to employ. ;; To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume. ;; To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions. ;; To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an aff
Swallowed : of Swallow
Swallower : One who swallows; also, a glutton.
Swallowfish : The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.
Swallowing : of Swallow
Swallowtail : 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.
Swallow-tailed : 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.
Swallowwort : See Celandine. ;; A poisonous plant (Vincetoxicum officinale) of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort.
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