Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.

Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To occupy; to take up; to employ.

Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.

Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions..

Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult..

Swallow :: Swallow (v. i.) To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow..

Swallow :: Swallow (n.) The act of swallowing.

Swallow :: Swallow (n.) The gullet, or esophagus; the throat..

Swallow :: Swallow (n.) Taste; relish; inclination; liking.

Swallow :: Swallow (n.) Capacity for swallowing; voracity.

Swallow :: Swallow (n.) As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water..

Swallow-tailed :: Swallowtail (n.) 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 :: Swallow-tailed (a.) 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..

Swallowed :: Swallow (n.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

Swallower :: Swallow (n.) That which ingulfs; a whirlpool.

Swallowfish :: Swallower (n.) One who swallows; also, a glutton..

Swallowing :: Swallowed (imp. & p. p.) of Swallo.

Swallowtail :: Swallowfish (n.) The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.

Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.

Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) A species of willow.

Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also priestcap..

Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) A swallow-tailed coat.

Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) An arrow.

Swallowwort :: Swallow-tailed (a.) United by dovetailing; dovetailed.

Swallowwort :: Swallowwort (n.) See Celandine.

Towall :: Towall (n.) A towel.

Uckewallist :: Uckewallist (n.) One of a sect of rigid Anabaptists, which originated in 1637, and whose tenets were essentially the same as those of the Mennonists. In addition, however, they held that Judas and the murderers of Christ were saved. So called from the founder of the sect, Ucke Wallis, a native of Friesland..

Walaway :: Walaway (interj.) See Welaway.

Wald :: Wald (n.) A forest; -- used as a termination of names. See Weald.

Waldenses :: Waldenses (n. pl.) A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles..

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