Definition of swallow

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Swallow (v. t.) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult..

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Absorbent :: Absorbent (a.) Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.
Swallow :: Swallow (n.) Capacity for swallowing; voracity.
Hirundine :: Hirundine (a.) Like or pertaining to the swallows.
Witchuck :: Witchuck (n.) The sand martin, or bank swallow..
Voracious :: Voracious (a.) Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool..
Swallowtail :: Swallowfish (n.) The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.
Ruminant :: Ruminant (a.) Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.
Scray :: Scray (n.) A tern; the sea swallow.
Sea Swallow :: Sea swallow () See Cornish chough, under Chough..
Ruminate :: Ruminate (v. i.) To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed.
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..
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..
Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly..
Gulp :: Gulp (n.) The act of taking a large mouthful; a swallow, or as much as is awallowed at once..
Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.
Absorbing :: Absorbing (a.) Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit..
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..
Introsume :: Introsume (v. t.) To draw in; to swallow.
Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food..
Gobbet :: Gobbet (v. t.) To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.
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