Definition of swallow

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

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Swallowwort :: Swallow-tailed (a.) United by dovetailing; dovetailed.
Swallowing :: Swallowed (imp. & p. p.) of Swallo.
Flapdragon :: Flapdragon (v. t.) To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour..
Swallow :: Swallow (n.) The gullet, or esophagus; the throat..
Progne :: Progne (n.) A swallow.
Engorged :: Engorged (p. a.) Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts..
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..
Soup :: Soup (v. t.) To sup or swallow.
Politzerization :: Politzerization (n.) The act of inflating the middle ear by blowing air up the nose during the act of swallowing; -- so called from Prof. Politzer of Vienna, who first practiced it..
Gorge :: Gorge (n.) To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities..
Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly..
Aglutition :: Aglutition (n.) Inability to swallow.
Turnus :: Turnus (n.) A common, large, handsome, American swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of Papilio, / Jasoniades, glaucus. The wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange-red spot near the posterior angle of the hind wings. Called also tiger swallowtail. See Illust. under Swallowtail..
Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food..
Merge :: Merge (v. i.) To be sunk, swallowed up, or lost..
Linchi :: Linchi (n.) An esculent swallow.
Wind-sucking :: Wind-sucking (n.) A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air; -- usually associated with crib-biting, or cribbing. See Cribbing, 4..
Swallowtail :: Swallowfish (n.) The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.
Gobble :: Gobble (v. t.) To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
Gormandize :: Gormandize (v. i. & t.) To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton.
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