Bank Swallow :: Bank swallow () See under 1st Bank, n..

Enwallow :: Enwallow (v. t.) To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow..

Pot-walloper :: Pot-walloper (n.) A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months..

Pot-walloper :: Pot-walloper (n.) One who cleans pots; a scullion.

Sea Swallow :: Sea swallow () The common tern.

Sea Swallow :: Sea swallow () The storm petrel.

Sea Swallow :: Sea swallow () The gannet.

Sea Swallow :: Sea swallow () See Cornish chough, under Chough..

Swallow :: Swallet (n.) Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; -- so called among tin miners.

Swallow :: Swallow (n.) 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..

Swallow :: Swallow (n.) Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift..

Swallow :: Swallowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swallo.

Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink..

Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.

Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly..

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.

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