Definition of swallow

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Swallow (v. t.) To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions..

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Swallow :: Swallow (v. i.) To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow..
Swallowtail :: Swallowfish (n.) The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.
Gulp :: Gulp (v. t.) To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow..
Swept :: Swelve (v. t.) To 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..
Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
Gorge :: Gorge (n.) To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities..
Scray :: Scray (n.) A tern; the sea swallow.
Absorbable :: Absorbable (a.) Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.
Republican :: Republican (n.) The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together..
Suck :: Suck (v. t.) To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up..
Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To occupy; to take up; to employ.
Resorbent :: Resorbent (a.) Swallowing up.
Swallow :: Swallow (n.) Taste; relish; inclination; liking.
Rhachiodont :: Rhachiodont (a.) Having gular teeth formed by a peculiar modification of the inferior spines of some of the vertebrae, as certain South African snakes (Dasypeltis) which swallow birds' eggs and use these gular teeth to crush them..
Merge :: Merge (v. i.) To be sunk, swallowed up, or lost..
Celandine :: Celandine (n.) A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort..
Drink :: Drink (v. i.) To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring..
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..
Hirundine :: Hirundine (a.) Like or pertaining to the swallows.
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