Definition of swallow

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Swallow (n.) Capacity for swallowing; voracity.

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Gorge :: Gorge (n.) That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl..
Swallowed :: Swallow (n.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
Swallow :: Swallowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swallo.
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..
Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food..
Swallowwort :: Swallow-tailed (a.) United by dovetailing; dovetailed.
Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.
Deglutition :: Deglutition (n.) The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.
Glut :: Glut (n.) That which is swallowed.
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..
Pouch :: Pouch (v. t.) To swallow; -- said of fowls.
Sea Swallow :: Sea swallow () The gannet.
Guzzle :: Guzzle (v. i.) To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.
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..
Gorge :: Gorge (n.) To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities..
Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) A swallow-tailed coat.
Suck :: Suck (v. t.) To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up..
Eat :: Eat (v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread..
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..
Swallow :: Swallow (n.) As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water..
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