Definition of swallow

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

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Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also priestcap..
Absorbable :: Absorbable (a.) Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.
Suck :: Suck (v. t.) To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up..
Rumination :: Rumination (n.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally observed as a morbid phenomenon in man..
Gobble :: Gobble (v. t.) To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
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 engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.
Aglutition :: Aglutition (n.) Inability to swallow.
Sea Swallow :: Sea swallow () The common tern.
Cynanche :: Cynanche (n.) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing..
Gulf :: Gulf (n.) That which swallows; the gullet.
Hydrophobia :: Hydrophobia (n.) The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness..
Bird''s-nest :: Bird's-nest (n.) The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups..
Swallowfish :: Swallower (n.) One who swallows; also, a glutton..
Flapdragon :: Flapdragon (v. t.) To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour..
Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food..
Glut :: Glut (v. t.) To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge..
Ruminant :: Ruminant (a.) Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.
Resorbent :: Resorbent (a.) Swallowing up.
Gulp :: Gulp (n.) The act of taking a large mouthful; a swallow, or as much as is awallowed at once..
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