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Engulfment :: Engulfment (n.) A swallowing up as if in a gulf.

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..

Sea Swallow :: Sea swallow () The gannet.

Witchuck :: Witchuck (n.) The sand martin, or bank swallow..

Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.

Suck :: Suck (v. t.) To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up..

Lurch :: Lurch (v. i.) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up..

Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To occupy; to take up; to employ.

Swallowwort :: Swallowwort (n.) See Celandine.

Trichina :: Trichina (n.) A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their

Dysphagy :: Dysphagy (n.) Difficulty in swallowing.

Sea Swallow :: Sea swallow () See Cornish chough, under Chough..

Cultrivorous :: Cultrivorous (a.) Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity..

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. t.) To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.

Swallowfish :: Swallower (n.) One who swallows; also, a glutton..

Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also priestcap..

Scray :: Scray (n.) A tern; the sea swallow.

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..

Gulf :: Gulf (n.) That which swallows; the gullet.

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