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Top-block :: Top-block (n.) A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, -- used in swaying and lowering the topmast..

Waddle :: Waddle (v. i.) To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles..

Sway :: Sway (n.) Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires..

Swealed :: Swaying (n.) An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses.

Pedantocracy :: Pedantocracy (n.) The sway of pedants.

Swayed :: Sway-bracing (n.) The horizontal bracing of a bridge, which prevents its swaying..

Command :: Command (n.) Control; power over something; sway; influence; as, to have command over one's temper or voice; the fort has command of the bridge..

Lord :: Lord (v. i.) To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb.

Upsway :: Upsway (v. t.) To sway or swing aloft; as, to upsway a club..

Oscillaria :: Oscillaria (n.) A genus of dark green, or purplish black, filamentous, fresh-water algae, the threads of which have an automatic swaying or crawling motion. Called also Oscillatoria..

Rocking :: Rocking (a.) Having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement; used for rocking..

Sway :: Sway (v. i.) To have weight or influence.

Influence :: Influence (v. t.) To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to move; to persuade; to induce..

Sovereignty :: Sovereignty (n.) The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into many sovereignties..

Autocrat :: Autocrat (a.) One who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot.

Swagger :: Swagger (v. i.) To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner..

Guy :: Guy (n.) A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened..

Misway :: Misway (n.) A wrong way.

Regal :: Regal (a.) Of or pertaining to a king; kingly; royal; as, regal authority, pomp, or sway..

Command :: Command (v. i.) To have or to exercise direct authority; to govern; to sway; to influence; to give an order or orders.

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