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Martin :: Martin (n.) One of several species of swallows, usually having the tail less deeply forked than the tail of the common swallows..

Reabsorb :: Reabsorb (v. t.) To absorb again; to draw in, or imbibe, again what has been effused, extravasated, or thrown off; to swallow up again; as, to reabsorb chyle, lymph, etc.; -- used esp. of fluids..

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

Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate..

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..

Engorge :: Engorge (v. t.) To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour.

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

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

Salagane :: Salagane (n.) The esculent swallow. See under Esculent.

Merge :: Merge (v. t.) To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.

Gobemouche :: Gobemouche (n.) Literally, a fly swallower; hence, once who keeps his mouth open; a boor; a silly and credulous person..

Engouled :: Engouled (a.) Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled..

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..

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

Musang :: Musang (n.) A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also coffee rat..

Swallowwort :: Swallowwort (n.) See Celandine.

Vincetoxin :: Vincetoxin (n.) A glucoside extracted from the root of the white swallowwort (Vincetoxicum officinale, a plant of the Asclepias family) as a bitter yellow amorphous substance; -- called also asclepiadin, and cynanchin..

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

Gorge :: Gorge (n.) That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl..

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