Definition of swallow

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

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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..
Engulf :: Engulf (v. t.) To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.
Twitter :: Twitter (n.) The act of twittering; a small, tremulous, intermitted noise, as that made by a swallow..
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..
Hirundine :: Hirundine (a.) Like or pertaining to the swallows.
Swallowfish :: Swallower (n.) One who swallows; also, a glutton..
Sea Swallow :: Sea swallow () The gannet.
Linchi :: Linchi (n.) An esculent swallow.
Regorge :: Regorge (v. t.) To swallow again; to swallow back.
Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) A swallow-tailed coat.
Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) A species of willow.
Priestcap :: Priestcap (n.) A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail..
Pouch :: Pouch (v. t.) To swallow; -- said of fowls.
Engulfment :: Engulfment (n.) A swallowing up as if in a gulf.
Sea Swallow :: Sea swallow () See Cornish chough, under Chough..
Maw :: Maw (n.) A stomach; the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing; in birds, the craw; -- now used only of the lower animals, exept humorously or in contempt..
Dysphagy :: Dysphagy (n.) Difficulty in swallowing.
Latirostres :: Latirostres (n. pl.) The broad-billed singing birds, such as the swallows, and their allies..
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..
Swallower :: Swallow (n.) That which ingulfs; a whirlpool.
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