SWEET-SMELLING — SYCOPHANCY NWAD SWEET-SMELLING.1

SWEET-SMELLING, a. [sweet and smell.] Having a sweet smell; fragrant. NWAD SWEET-SMELLING.1

SWELL, v.i. pret. swelled; pp. swelled. Swollen is nearly obsolete. NWAD SWELL.1

1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions by matter added to the interior part, or by expansion of the inclosed substance. Thus the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a tumor swells; a bladder swells by inflation. NWAD SWELL.2

2. To increase in size or extent by any addition; as, a river swells and overflows its banks. NWAD SWELL.3

3. To rise or be driven into waves or billows. In a tempest, the ocean swells into waves mountain high. NWAD SWELL.4

4. To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride. NWAD SWELL.5

5. To be gloated with anger; to be exasperated. He swells with rage. NWAD SWELL.6

6. To be inflated; to belly; as swelling sails. NWAD SWELL.7

7. To be turgid or bombastic; as swelling words; a swelling style. NWAD SWELL.8

8. To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle. NWAD SWELL.9

9. To be elated; to rise into arrogance. NWAD SWELL.10

Your equal mind yet swells not into state. NWAD SWELL.11

10. To grow more violent; as, a moderate passion may swell to fury. NWAD SWELL.12

11. To grow upon the view; to become larger. NWAD SWELL.13

--And monarachs to be hold the swelling scene. NWAD SWELL.14

12. To become larger in amount. Many little debts added, swell to a great amount. NWAD SWELL.15

13. To become louder; as, a sound gradually swells as it approaches. NWAD SWELL.16

14. To strut; to look big. NWAD SWELL.17

--Swelling like a turkey cock. NWAD SWELL.18

15. To rise in altitude; as, land swells into hills. NWAD SWELL.19

SWELL, v.t. To increase the size, bulk or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate or increase. Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring, and cause floods. Jordan is swelled by the snows of mount Libanus. NWAD SWELL.20

1. To aggravate; to highten. NWAD SWELL.21

It is low ebb with the accuser, when such peccadillos are put to swell the charge. NWAD SWELL.22

2. To raise to arrogance; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness. NWAD SWELL.23

3. To enlarge. These sums swell the amount of taxes to a fearful size. These victories served to swell the fame of the commander. NWAD SWELL.24

4. In music, to augment, as the sound of a note. NWAD SWELL.25

SWELL, n. Extension of bulk. NWAD SWELL.26

1. Increase, as sound; as the swell of a note. NWAD SWELL.27

2. A gradual ascent or elevation of land; as an extensive plain abounding with little swells. NWAD SWELL.28

3. A wave or billow; more generally, a succession of large waves; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor. Swell is also used to denote the waves or fluctuation of the sea after a storm, and the waves that roll in and break upon the shore. NWAD SWELL.29

4. In an organ, a certain number of pipes inclosed in a box, which being uncovered, produce a swell of sound. NWAD SWELL.30

SWELLED, pp. Enlarged in bulk; inflated; tumefied. NWAD SWELLED.1

SWELLING, ppr. Growing or enlarging in its dimensions; growing tumid; inflating; growing tumid; inflating; growing or making louder. NWAD SWELLING.1

SWELLING, n. A tumor, or any morbid enlargement of the natural size; as a swelling on the hand or leg. NWAD SWELLING.2

1. Protuberance; prominence. NWAD SWELLING.3

The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. NWAD SWELLING.4

2. A rising or enlargement by passion; as the swellings of anger, grief or pride. NWAD SWELLING.5

SWELT, for swelled, is not in use. NWAD SWELT.1

SWELT, v.i. To faint; to swoon. NWAD SWELT.2

SWELT, v.t. To overpower, as with heat; to cause to faint. [We now use swelter.] NWAD SWELT.3

SWELTER, v.i. [from swelt.] To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat. NWAD SWELTER.1

SWELTER, v.t. To oppress with heat. NWAD SWELTER.2

SWELTERED, pp. Oppressed with heat. NWAD SWELTERED.1

SWELTERING, ppr. Fainting or languishing with heat; oppressing with heat. NWAD SWELTERING.1

SWELTRY, a. Suffocating with heat; oppressive with heat; sultry. [See Sultry, which is probably a contraction of sweltry.] NWAD SWELTRY.1

SWEPT, pret. and pp. of sweep. NWAD SWEPT.1

SWERD, for sward, is not in use. NWAD SWERD.1

SWERVE, v.i. swerv. NWAD SWERVE.1

1. To wander; to rove. NWAD SWERVE.2

The swerving vines on the tall elms prevail. NWAD SWERVE.3

2. To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule of duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty or custom; to deviate. NWAD SWERVE.4

I swerve not from thy commandments. NWAD SWERVE.5

They swerve from the strict letter of the law. NWAD SWERVE.6

Many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy religion-- NWAD SWERVE.7

3. To bend; to incline. NWAD SWERVE.8

4. To climb or move forward by winding or turning. NWAD SWERVE.9

The tree was high, NWAD SWERVE.10

Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerv’d. NWAD SWERVE.11

[This use of the word coincides with that of swarm, which see.] NWAD SWERVE.12

SWERVING, ppr. Roving; wandering; deviating from any rule or standard; inclining; climbing or moving by winding and turning. NWAD SWERVING.1

SWERVING, n. The act of wandering; deviation from any rule, law, duty or standard. NWAD SWERVING.2

SWIFT, a. NWAD SWIFT.1

1. Moving a great distance or over a large space in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy. We say, soft winds, a swift stream, swift lightnings, swift motion, swift as thought, a fowl swift of wing, a man swift of foot. Swift is applicable to any kind of motion. NWAD SWIFT.2

2. Ready; prompt. NWAD SWIFT.3

Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. James 1:19. NWAD SWIFT.4

3. Speedy; that comes without delay. NWAD SWIFT.5

There shall be false teachers among you, who shall privily bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 Peter 2:1. NWAD SWIFT.6

SWIFT, n. The current of a stream. [Little used.] NWAD SWIFT.7

1. In domestic affairs, a reel or turning instrument for winding yarn. [This is a sense directly from the Saxon verb.] NWAD SWIFT.8

2. A bird, a species of swallow, so called from the rapidity of its flight. NWAD SWIFT.9

3. The common newt or eft, a species of lizard. NWAD SWIFT.10

SWIFTER, n. In a ship, a rope used to confine the bars of the capstan in their sockets, while men are turning it; also, a rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides from the impulse of other boats. Swifters also are two shrouds fixed on the starboard and larboard sides of the lower masts, above all the other shrouds, to give the masts additional security. NWAD SWIFTER.1

SWIFTER, v.t. To stretch, as shrouds by tackles. NWAD SWIFTER.2

SWIFTLY, adv. Fleetly; rapidly; with celerity; with quick motion or velocity. NWAD SWIFTLY.1

Pleas’d with the passage, we slide swiftly on. NWAD SWIFTLY.2

SWIFTNESS, n. Speed; rapid motion; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity. Swiftness is a word of general import, applicable to every kind of motion, and to every thing that moves; as the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc. NWAD SWIFTNESS.1

SWIG, v.t. or i. To drink by large draughts; to suck greedily. NWAD SWIG.1

SWIG, n. A large draught. [Vulgar.] NWAD SWIG.2

1. In seamen’s language, a pulley with ropes which are not parallel. NWAD SWIG.3

SWIG, v.t. To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tight with a string. [Local.] NWAD SWIG.4

SWILL, v.t. NWAD SWILL.1

1. To drink grossly or greedily; as, to swill down great quantities of liquors. NWAD SWILL.2

2. To wash; to drench. NWAD SWILL.3

3. To inebriate; to swell with fullness. NWAD SWILL.4

I should be loth NWAD SWILL.5

To meet the rudeness and swill’d insolence NWAD SWILL.6

Of such late wassailers. NWAD SWILL.7

SWILL, n. Large draughts of liquor; or drink taken in excessive quantities. NWAD SWILL.8

1. The wash or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; called in some places swillings. NWAD SWILL.9

SWILLED, pp. Swallowed grossly in large quantities. NWAD SWILLED.1

SWILLER, n. One who drinks voraciously. NWAD SWILLER.1

SWILLING, ppr. Swallowing excessive quantities of liquors. NWAD SWILLING.1

SWILLINGS, n. Swill. NWAD SWILLINGS.1

SWIM, v.i. NWAD SWIM.1

1. To float; to be supported on water or other fluid; not to sink. Most species of wood will swim in water. Any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed. NWAD SWIM.2

2. To move progressively in water by means of the motion of the hands and feet, or of fins. In Paris, boys are taught to swim by instructors appointed for that purpose. Isaiah 25:11. NWAD SWIM.3

Leap in with me into this angry flood, NWAD SWIM.4

And swim to yonder point. NWAD SWIM.5

3. To float; to be borne along by a current. In all states there are men who will swim with the tide of popular opinion. NWAD SWIM.6

4. To glide along with a smooth motion, or with a waving motion. NWAD SWIM.7

She with pretty and with swimming gait. NWAD SWIM.8

A hov’ring mist came swimming o’er his sight. NWAD SWIM.9

5. To be dizzy or vertiginous; to have a waving motion of the head or a sensation of that kind, or a reeling of the body. The head swims when we walk on high. NWAD SWIM.10

6. To be floated; to be overflowed or drenched; as, the earth swims in rain. NWAD SWIM.11

Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim. NWAD SWIM.12

All the night I make my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. Psalm 6:6. NWAD SWIM.13

7. To overflow; to abound; to have abundance. NWAD SWIM.14

They now swim in joy. NWAD SWIM.15

SWIM, v.t. To pass or move on; as, to swim a stream. Deer are known to swim rivers and sounds. NWAD SWIM.16

Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main. NWAD SWIM.17

1. To immerse in water that the lighter parts may swim; as, to swim wheat for seed. NWAD SWIM.18

SWIMM, n. The bladder of fishes, by which they are said to be supported in water. NWAD SWIMM.1

SWIMMER, n. One that swims. NWAD SWIMMER.1

1. A protuberance on the leg of a horse. NWAD SWIMMER.2

SWIMMING, ppr. Floating on a fluid; moving on a fluid; having a waving or reeling motion; overflowing; abounding. NWAD SWIMMING.1

SWIMMING, n. The act or art of moving on the water by means of the limbs; a floating. NWAD SWIMMING.2

1. Dizziness. NWAD SWIMMING.3

SWIMMINGLY, adv. Smoothly; without obstruction; with great success. [Not elegant.] NWAD SWIMMINGLY.1

SWINDLE, v.t. To cheat and defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property. NWAD SWINDLE.1

SWINDLED, pp. Grossly cheated and defrauded. NWAD SWINDLED.1

SWINDLER, n. A cheat; a rogue; one who defrauds grossly, or one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice. NWAD SWINDLER.1

SWINE, n. sing. and plu. A hog, a quadruped of the genus Sus, which furnishes man with a large portion of his most nourishing food. The fat or lard of this animal enters into various dishes in cookery. The swine is a heavy, stupid animal, and delights to wallow in the mire. NWAD SWINE.1

SWINE-BREAD, n. A kind of plant, truffle. NWAD SWINE-BREAD.1

SWINE-CASE, SWINE-COAT, SWINE-CRUE, n. A hog sty; a pen for swine. [Local.] NWAD SWINE-CASE.1

SWINE-GRASS, n. [L. centinodia, knot grass.] A plant. NWAD SWINE-GRASS.1

SWINEHERD, n. [swine and herd.] A keeper of swing. NWAD SWINEHERD.1

SWINE-OAT, n. [swine and oat.] A kind of oats, cultivated for the use of pigs, as in Cornwall; the Avena nuda of botanists. NWAD SWINE-OAT.1

SWINE-PIPE, n. [swine and pipe.] A bird, the red-wing. [Local.] NWAD SWINE-PIPE.1

SWINE-POCKS, SWINE-POX, n. The chicken-pocks. A variety of the chicken-pocks, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox. NWAD SWINE-POCKS.1

SWINE’S-CRESS, n. A species of cress, of the genus Cochlearia. NWAD SWINES-CRESS.1

SWINE-STONE, n. [swine and stone.] A name given to those kinds of limestone which, when rubbed, emit a fetid odor, resembling that of naphtha combined with sulphurated hydrogen. NWAD SWINE-STONE.1

SWINE-STY, n. A sty or pen for swine. NWAD SWINE-STY.1

SWINE-THISTLE, n. A plant, the sow thistle. NWAD SWINE-THISTLE.1

SWING, v.i. pret. and pp. swung. NWAD SWING.1

1. To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate. NWAD SWING.2

I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer in our receiver, if exhausted. NWAD SWING.3

2. To practice swinging; as, a man swings for health or pleasure. NWAD SWING.4

3. To move or float; also, to turn round an anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide. NWAD SWING.5

SWING, v.t. To make to play loosely; to cause to wave or vibrate; as a body suspended in the air. NWAD SWING.6

1. To whirl round in the air. NWAD SWING.7

--Swing thee in air, then dash thee down. NWAD SWING.8

2. To wave; to move to and from; as, a man swings his arms when he walks. NWAD SWING.9

He swings his tail, and swiftly turns him round. NWAD SWING.10

3. To brandish; to flourish. NWAD SWING.11

SWING, n. A waving or vibratory motion; oscillation; as the swing of a pendulum. NWAD SWING.12

1. Motion from one side to the other. A haughty man struts or walks with a swing. NWAD SWING.13

2. A line, cord or other thing suspended and hanging loose; also, an apparatus suspended for persons to swing in. NWAD SWING.14

3. Influence or power of a body put in motion. NWAD SWING.15

The ram that batters down the wall, NWAD SWING.16

For the great swing and rudeness of his poise-- NWAD SWING.17

4. Free course; unrestrained liberty or license. NWAD SWING.18

Take thy swing. NWAD SWING.19

To prevent any thing which may prove an obstacle to the full swing of his genius. NWAD SWING.20

5. The sweep or compass of a moving body. NWAD SWING.21

6. Unrestrained tendency; as the prevailing swing of corrupt nature; the swing of propensities. NWAD SWING.22

SWING-BRIDGE, n. [swing and bridge.] A bridge that may be moved by swinging; used on canals. NWAD SWING-BRIDGE.1

SWINGE, v.t. swinj. NWAD SWINGE.1

1. To beat soundly; to whip; to bastinade; to chastise; to punish. NWAD SWINGE.2

You swing’d me for my love. NWAD SWINGE.3

--And swings his own vices in his son. NWAD SWINGE.4

2. To move as a lash. [Not in use.] NWAD SWINGE.5

[This verb is obsolescent and vulgar.] NWAD SWINGE.6

SWINGE, n. swinj. A sway; a swing; the sweep of any thing in motion [Not in use.] NWAD SWINGE.7

SWINGE-BUCKLER, n. swingj-buckler. A bully; one who pretends to feats of arms. [Not in use.] NWAD SWINGE-BUCKLER.1

SWINGER, n. One who swings; one who hurls. NWAD SWINGER.1

SWINGING, ppr. of swing. Waving; vibrating; brandishing. NWAD SWINGING.1

SWINGING, n. The act of swinging; an exercise for health or pleasure. NWAD SWINGING.2

SWINGING, ppr. of swinge. Beating soundly. NWAD SWINGING.3

1. a. Hugh; very large. [Vulgar.] NWAD SWINGING.4

SWINGINGLY, adv. Vastly; hugely. [Vulgar.] NWAD SWINGINGLY.1

SWINGLE, v.i. [from swing.] To dangle; to wave hanging. NWAD SWINGLE.1

1. To swing for pleasure. [Not in use.] NWAD SWINGLE.2

SWINGLE, v.t. To beat; to clean flax by beating it with a wooden instrument resembling a large knife, and called in New England a swingling knife. Flax is first broke and then swingled. NWAD SWINGLE.3

SWINGLE, n. In wire-works, a wooden spoke fixed to the barrel that draws the wire; also, a crank. NWAD SWINGLE.4

SWINGLED, pp. Beat and cleaned by a swingling knife. NWAD SWINGLED.1

SWINGLE-TREE, n. A whiffle-tree or whipple-tree. NWAD SWINGLE-TREE.1

SWINGLING, ppr. Beating and cleaning, as flax. NWAD SWINGLING.1

SWINGLING-KNIFE, SWINGLE, n. A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for cleaning flax of the shives. NWAD SWINGLING-KNIFE.1

SWINGLING-TOW, n. The coarse part of flax, separated from the finer by swingling and hatcheling. NWAD SWINGLING-TOW.1

SWING-TREE, n. [swing and tree.] The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened. In America, it is often or generally called the whiffle-tree, or whipple-tree. NWAD SWING-TREE.1

SWING-WHEEL, n. [swing and wheel.] In a time piece, the wheel which drives the pendulum. In a watch, or balance clock, it is called the crown-wheel. NWAD SWING-WHEEL.1

SWINISH, a. [from swine.] Befitting swine; like swine; gross; hoggish; brutal; as a swinish drunkard or sot; swinish gluttony. NWAD SWINISH.1

SWINK, v.i. To labor; to toil; to drudge. NWAD SWINK.1

SWINK, v.t. To overlabor. NWAD SWINK.2

SWINK, n. Labor; toil; drudgery. NWAD SWINK.3

SWINKER, n. A laborer; a plowman. NWAD SWINKER.1

SWIPE, n. A swape or sweep, which see. NWAD SWIPE.1

SWIPPER, a. Nimble; quick. [Not in use.] NWAD SWIPPER.1

SWISS, n. A native of Switzerland or Swisserland. NWAD SWISS.1

1. The language of Swisserland. NWAD SWISS.2

SWITCH, n. A small flexible twig or rod. NWAD SWITCH.1

On the medal, Mauritania leads a horse by a thread with one hand, and in the other holds a switch. NWAD SWITCH.2

SWITCH, v.t. To strike with a small twig or rod; to beat; to lash. NWAD SWITCH.3

SWITCH, v.i. To walk with a jerk. NWAD SWITCH.4

SWIVEL, n. swiv’l. NWAD SWIVEL.1

1. A ring which turns upon a staple; or a strong link of iron used in mooring ships, and which permits the bridles to be turned round; any ring or staple that turns. NWAD SWIVEL.2

2. A small cannon or piece of artillery, carrying a shot of half a pound, fixed on a socket on the top of a ship’s side, stern or bow, or in her tops, in such a manner as to be turned in any direction. NWAD SWIVEL.3

SWIVEL, v.i. swiv’l. To turn on a staple, pin or pivot. NWAD SWIVEL.4

SWIVEL-HOOK, n. A hook that turns in the end of an iron block strap, for the ready taking the turns out of a tackle. NWAD SWIVEL-HOOK.1

SWOB, n. A mop. [See Swab.] NWAD SWOB.1

SWOB, v.t. To clean or wipe with a swob. [See Swab.] NWAD SWOB.2

SWOBBER, n. One who swabs or cleans with a mop. [See Swabber.] NWAD SWOBBER.1

1. Swobbers, four privileged cards, only used incidentally in betting at the game of whist. NWAD SWOBBER.2

SWOLLEN, SWOLN, pp. of swell; irregular and obsolescent. The regular participle, swelled, is to be preferred. NWAD SWOLLEN.1

SWOM, old pret. of swim, is obsolete. We now use swum and swam. NWAD SWOM.1

SWOON, v.i. To faint; to sink into a fainting fit, in which there is a suspension of the apparent vital functions and mental powers. NWAD SWOON.1

The most in years swoon’d first away for pain. NWAD SWOON.2

He seemed ready to swoon away in the surprise of joy. NWAD SWOON.3

SWOON, n. A fainting fit; lipothymy; syncope. NWAD SWOON.4

SWOONING, ppr. Fainting away. NWAD SWOONING.1

SWOONING, n. The act of fainting; syncope. NWAD SWOONING.2

SWOOP, v.t. [This is probably from sweep, or the same root.] NWAD SWOOP.1

1. To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken; a kite swoops up a mouse. NWAD SWOOP.2

2. To seize; to catchup; to take with a sweep. NWAD SWOOP.3

3. To pass with violence. NWAD SWOOP.4

SWOOP, v.i. To pass with pomp. NWAD SWOOP.5

SWOOP, n. A falling on and seizing, as of a rapacious fowl on his prey. NWAD SWOOP.6

The eagle fell--and carried away a whole litter of cubs at a swoop. NWAD SWOOP.7

SWOP, v.t. To exchange; to barter; to give one commodity for another. [See Swap. This is a common word, but not in elegant use.] NWAD SWOP.1

SWORD, n. NWAD SWORD.1

1. An offensive weapon worn at the side, and used by hand either for thrusting or cutting. NWAD SWORD.2

2. Figuratively, destruction by war. NWAD SWORD.3

I will bring a sword upon you. Leviticus 26:25; Isaiah 51:19. NWAD SWORD.4

3. Vengeance or justice. NWAD SWORD.5

She quits the balance, and resigns the sword. NWAD SWORD.6

4. Emblem of authority and power. NWAD SWORD.7

The ruler--beareth not the sword in vain. Romans 13:4. NWAD SWORD.8

5. War; dissension. NWAD SWORD.9

I came not to send peace, but a sword. Matthew 10:34. NWAD SWORD.10

6. Emblem of triumph and protection. NWAD SWORD.11

The Lord--the sword of thy excellence. Deuteronomy 33:29. NWAD SWORD.12

SWORD-BEARER, n. [sword and bear.] An officer in the city of London, who carries a sword as an emblem of justice before the lord mayor when he goes abroad. NWAD SWORD-BEARER.1

SWORD-BELT, n. [sword and belt.] A belt by which a sword is suspended and borne by the side. NWAD SWORD-BELT.1

SWORD-BLADE, n. [sword and blade.] The blade or cutting part of a sword. NWAD SWORD-BLADE.1

SWORDED, a. Girded with a sword. NWAD SWORDED.1

SWORDER, n. A soldier; a cut-throat. [Not in use.] NWAD SWORDER.1

SWORD-FIGHT, n. [sword and fight.] Fencing; a combat or trial of skill with swords. NWAD SWORD-FIGHT.1

SWORD-FISH, n. [sword and fish.] A genus of fishes called in ichthyology, xiphias; so named from the nose, snout or upper jaw, which is shaped like a sword. NWAD SWORD-FISH.1

SWORD-GRASS, n. [sword and grass.] A kind of sedge, glader; the sweet rush, a species of Acorus. NWAD SWORD-GRASS.1

SWORD-KNOT, n. [sword and knot.] A ribin tied to the hilt of a sword. NWAD SWORD-KNOT.1

SWORD-LAW, n. [sword and law.] Violence; government by force. NWAD SWORD-LAW.1

SWORD-MAN, n. [sword and man.] A soldier; a fighting man. NWAD SWORD-MAN.1

SWORD-PLAYER, n. [sword and player.] A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword. NWAD SWORD-PLAYER.1

SWORD-SHAPED, a. [sword and shape.] Ensiform; shaped like a sword; as a sword-shaped leaf. NWAD SWORD-SHAPED.1

SWORE, pret. of swear. NWAD SWORE.1

SWORN, pp. of swear. The officers of government are sworn to a faithful discharge of their duty. NWAD SWORN.1

Sworn friends, is a phrase equivalent to determined, close or firm friends. NWAD SWORN.2

I am sworn brother, sweet, NWAD SWORN.3

To grim necessity. NWAD SWORN.4

Sworn enemies, are determined or irreconcilable enemies. NWAD SWORN.5

SWOUND, v.i. To swoon. [Not in use.] NWAD SWOUND.1

SWUM, pret. and pp. of swim. NWAD SWUM.1

SWUNG, pret. and pp. of swing. NWAD SWUNG.1

SYB, SIB, a. Related by blood. NWAD SYB.1

SYBARITIC, SYBARITICAL, a. [from Sybaritoe, inhabitants of Sybaris, in Italy, who were proverbially voluptuous.] Luxurious; wanton. NWAD SYBARITIC.1

SYCAMINE. [See Sycamore.] NWAD SYCAMINE.1

SYCAMORE, n. [Gr. a fig.] A species of fig-tree. The name is also given to the Acer majus, [A. pseudo-platanus,] a species of maple. NWAD SYCAMORE.1

This name is also given to the plane tree or button-wood, of the genus Platanus. NWAD SYCAMORE.2

SYCAMORE-MOTH, n. A large and beautiful moth or night butterfly; so called because its caterpillar feeds on the leaves of the sycamore. NWAD SYCAMORE-MOTH.1

SYCITE, n. [Gr. fig.] Fig-stone; a name which some authors give to nodules of flint or pebbles which resemble a fig. NWAD SYCITE.1

SYCOPHANCY, n. [infra.] Originally, information of the clandestine exportation of figs; hence, mean talebearing; obsequious flattery; servility. NWAD SYCOPHANCY.1