Definition of swamp

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Swamp (v. i.) To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties..

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Maple :: Maple (n.) A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. platanoides.
Swamp :: Swamp (v. t.) Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
Swampy :: Swamp (v. i.) To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked..
Water Hare :: Water hare () A small American hare or rabbit (Lepus aquaticus) found on or near the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also water rabbit, and swamp hare..
Fenny :: Fenny (a.) Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy..
Everglade :: Everglade (n.) A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida..
Hard :: Hard (n.) A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
Bitternut :: Bitternut (n.) The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.
Swamp :: Swamp (v. i.) To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties..
Hickory :: Hickory (n.) An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter..
Redwing :: Redwing (n.) A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A North American passerine bird (Agelarius ph/niceus) of the family Icteridae. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird..
Water Tupelo :: Water tupelo () A species of large tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) growing in swamps in the southern of the United States. See Ogeechee lime.
Slumpy :: Slumpy (a.) Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy.
Marsh :: Marsh (n.) A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass..
Slash :: Slash (n.) Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.
Swamp :: Swamp (v. t.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
Ogeechee Lime :: Ogeechee lime () The acid, olive-shaped, drupaceous fruit of a species of tupelo (Nyssa capitata) which grows in swamps in Georgia and Florida..
Palustrine :: Palustrine (a.) Of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy..
Pocoson :: Pocoson (n.) Low, wooded grounds or swamps in Eastern Maryland and Virginia..
Swamp :: Swamping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swam.
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