swag 
2. To move as something heavy and pendent : 
sway. [Obsolete or provincial.] 
I have seen above five hundred hanged, but I never 
saw any have a better countenance In his dangling and 
penditatory npagyinff. Urqiihart, tr. of Rabelais, i. 43. 
A timber dray . . . had passed not long ago, with a 
great trunk swinging and swagginy on the road, and slur- 
ring the scallops of the horse met. 
It. D. Blacltmore, C'ripps, the Carrier, xxvi. 
swag (hvrag), ii. [< nifttfi, i'.] 1. An unequal, 
hobbling motion. [Local.] 2. Sameassjcafe 1 , 
2. [Local, U. S.] 3. A bundle; the package 
or roll containing the possessions of a swag- 
man. [Australia.] 
Money or no money, are they not free as air, bar the 
weight of their swags ? 
Chambers'* Journal, oth ser., II. 286. 
4. A festoon. See the quotation. 
The various sizes of festoons, or, as they are sometimes 
denominated by the trade, ways. Paper-hanger, p. 100. 
5. In decorative art, an irregular or informal 
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II. trims. To influence by blustering or 
threats; bully. 
Can we not live in compasse of the Law, 
But must be simggered out on 't? 
lleywood, Fair Maid of the West (Works, ed. 1874, II. 27!>). 
He would ftwayyer the boldest man into a dread of his 
power. Strift, Account of Court and Kmpire of Japan. 
swagger 1 (swag'er), n. [< mruagn-i, r.] The act 
or manner of a swaggerer; an insolent strut; 
a piece of bluster; boastfulness, bravado, or 
insolence in manner. 
It requires but an impudent swagger, and you are taken 
upon your own representation. 
Sfarrtfat, 1'acha of Many Tales, The Water-Carrier. 
\(Latham.) 
swagger 1 (swag'er), . [< sicaggeri,r.~\ Swell; 
all the rage. [Slang.] 
His [Prince Melissano's] gambling parties were so swag- 
ger that rich money-lenders who wanted to extend their 
social relations did not mind to what an extent they them- 
selves or their sons lost money at them. 
New York Semi-weekly Tribune, Nov. 2, 1886. 
cluster: as, a swag of flowers in the engraved swa gger 2 (swag'er). . [< swap + -!.] Same 
as swagman, 2. 
decoration of a piece of plate. 6. In coal- 
mining, a subsidence of the roof, in conse- 
quence of the working away of the coal : same 
as weighting. [Prov. Eng.] 7. A large quan- 
tity; a lot; hence, plundered property; booty; 
boodle. [Slang.] 
"I'was awful to hear, as she went along, . . . 
The dark allusion, or bolder brag, 
Of the dexterous dodge, and the lots of swag. 
Hood, Tale of a Trumpet. (Dames.) 
swag-belliedt(swag'bel"id),a. Having a prom- 
inent overhanging belly. 
Your Dane, your German, and your swag-bellied Hol- 
lander . . . are nothing to your English. 
Shak., Othello, ii. 3. 80. 
swag-bellyt (swag'beFi), .. A prominent or 
projecting belly ; also, a swag-bellied person. 
Under the name of the swagger or sundowner the tramp 
[in Australia], as he moves from station to station in re- 
mote districts in supposed search for work, is a recognized 
element of society. The Century, XLI. 694. 
swaggerer (swag'er-er), H. [< swagger + -er 1 .] 
One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a 
boastful, noisy fellow. 
Patience herself would startle at this letter, 
And play the swaggerer. 
Shak., As you Like it, iv. 3. 14. 
swaggering (swag'er-ing), n. [Verbal n. of 
swagger 1 , .] The act of strutting ; blustering ; 
bravado. 
I am very glad 
You are not gulled by all this swaggering. 
Browning, Paracelsus. 
Great oveTgrown dignitaries and Teeters, with rubicund Swaggering (swag'er-ing), p. a. [Ppr. of swag- 
noses and gouty ancles, or broad bloated faces, dragging 
along great swag-bellies, the emblems of sloth and indi- 
gestion. Smollett, Humphrey Clinker, Melford to Phillips, 
[Bath, May 17. 
SWageH, . See suage. 
swage 2 (swaj), re. [Said to be < F. suage, a tool, 
lit. ' sweating,' < suer, sweat, < L. amort = E. 
sweat: see sndation and sweat."] 1. A tool or 
die for imparting a given shape to metal when 
swallow 
Korth went knyght <fc sueyn, <fcfote men alle in fere. 
Rot. of Bntnne, p. 241. 
gondyr ys Gayere, an harde swayn, 
The emperowre sone of Almayn. 
MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. SS, f. 150. (llallimll.) 
3. A man dwelling in the country; a country- 
man employed in husbandry; a rustic. 
There is a Back-gate for the Beggars and the meaner 
Sort of Swains to come in at. Howell, Letters, I. ii. 8. 
The Swains their Flocks and Herds had fed. 
Conyreve, Hymn to Venus. 
Haply some hoary-headed strain may say, 
"Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn." 
Gray, Elegy. 
Hence 4. A country gallant; a lover or 
sweetheart generally. 
Blest su'ains ! whose nymphs in every grace excel. 
Pope, Spring, 1. 95. 
Swain moot. See inooti. 
SWaining (swa'ning), n. [< sn-ain + -ing 1 .'] 
Love-making. [Slang, Eng.] 
His general manner had a good deal of what in female 
slang is called frwaining. 
Mrs. Trollops, Michael Armstrong, i. (Davies.) 
swainish (swa'nish), a. [< girain + -isli 1 .'] 
Pertaining to or resembling a swain ; rustic : 
boorish. [Rare.] 
Not to be sensible when good and faire in one person 
meet argues both a grosse and shallow judgement and 
withall an ungentle and swainish brest. 
Miltan, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
swainishness (swa'nish-nes), n. The state of 
being swainish. [Bare.] 
Others who are not only swainish, but are prompt to 
take oath that swainishness is the only culture. 
Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (ed. 1878), p. 87. 
SWainlingt (swan'ling), . [< mraiii + -ling 1 .'] 
A small or young swain. 
While we stand 
Hand in hand, 
Honest mainling, with his sweeting. 
Witts Recreations (1664). (Nares.) 
genng manner ; with bravado. 
"I do not care what she says!" replies Lily, swagger- 
inyly. R. Brmtghton, Dr. Cupid, xi. 
Swaggy; pendu- 
swaggingt (swag'ing), ;j. a. 
lous. 
The belly [of the toad] is large and swagging. 
Goldsmith, Animated Nature, xi. 
swaggyt (swag'i), a. [< swag + -yl.] Sink- 
ing, hanging, or leaning by its weight ; pendu- 
lous. 
His swagyy and prominent belly. 
SirT. Brmene, Vulg. Err., iii. 4. 
swaging-machine (swa'jing-ma-shen' 1 '), n. A 
machine for shaping sheet-metal either by 
means of a blow or by pressure. E. H. Knight. 
laid hot on an anvil, or in a stamping-press or SWaging-mallet (swa'jing-mal"et), n. A tool 
l V* e<l m dental work to bring artificial plates to 
shape. 
. collar-swages; r, sprint'-* 
guide-swage. 
drop-press, or between rolls. It assumes many 
shapes, as an indenting- or shaping-tool, or as a die for 
, - -, 
striking up sheet-metal, or in stamps and presses. Stamp- SWagman (swag'man), n.; r>\. swagmen (-men). 
" 
A heavy block 
bending one tooth at a time to the proper angle, 
or, in the making of vessels of tin-plate, for 
bending the metal slightly. 
swage 2 (swaj), v. t.; pret. and pp. swaged, ppr. 
swaging. [< swage?, .] To shape by means of 
a swage. Also sweilge. 
swage-block (swaj'blok), >i. 
of iron, perforated with 
holes of different sizes 
and shapes, and variously 
grooved on the sides : used 
for heading bolts, and 
swaging objects of larger 
size than can be worked 
on an anvil in the ordi- 
nary way. E. H. Knight. 
swagger 1 (swag'er)' 
[Freq. of swag.'] 1 
trans. 1 . To strut with a 
defiant or insolent air, or with an obtrusive 
affectation of superiority. 
Here comes swaggering along the pavement a military 
gentleman in a coat much befrogged. 
W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 51. 
2. To boast or brag noisily; bluster; bully; 
hector. 
A rascal that swaggered with me [that is, tried to bully 
me] last night. Shak., Hen. V., iv. 7. 131. 
It was something to swagger about when they were to- 
gether after their second bottle of claret. 
Dimuli. (Imp. Diet.) 
;rj, r. 
I. in- 
:ri, f.] Strutting; blustering; boasting. 
Here 's a swaggering fellow, sir. that speaks not like a 
man of God's making, swears he must speak with you, and SWainmotet (swan'mot), n. [Also sweinmotc 
th ffi- and Vebster, Northward Ho, i, 1. ^ T^^Zf Z^ = + 
ag er-mg-li), adv. In a swag- Swainsona (swan'son-a), n. [NL. (Salisbury, 
1806), named after Isaac Swainson, a cultivator 
of plants at Twickenham in England, about 
1790.] A genus of leguminous plants, of the 
tribe Galegese and subtribe Colutese. it is char- 
acterized by flowers with a roundish spreading or re- 
flexed banner petal, a broad incurved keel which is obtuse 
or produced into a twisted beak, a curving style which 
is bearded lengthwise and inwardly or rarely on the back, 
and by an ovoid or oblong swollen pod which is coria- 
ceous or membranous and often longitudinally two-celled 
by the intrusion of the seed-bearing suture. There are 
about 28 species, all natives of Australia or (one spe- 
cies) of New Zealand. They are herbs or shrubs, either 
smooth or clothed with somewhat appressed hairs. They 
have odd-pinnate leaves of many entire leaflets, common- 
ly with broad leaf-like stipules, and bluish, purplish, or 
red, rarely white or yellowish flowers in axillary racemes. 
Several species are cultivated under the name Swainson 
pea ; especially two species with large pink or red flowers, 
& Oreyana with a white cottony calyx and S. galetjifolia 
with the calyx smooth, both also known as Darling-river 
pea, or as poison-pea, being said to poison stock : the latter 
- .... . * ., ,. ,- is also called indigo-plant and horse-poison plant. 
_ + man.] 1. A seller of low-priced swaip (swap), r. i. [A dial, form of sweep or 
trashy goods, trinkets, etc. [Slang.] swoop.'] To walk proudly; sweep. [Prov. Eng.] 
It is the same with the women who work for the slop- SWaits, w. Same as MMfe 
uu meronratii *c-, or make cap-fronts, Ac., on their swalt. An obsolete strong preterit of swell. 
'XlS^'ag"nien^vbo^aiov-ftiSmaS^ey 0r the swale 1 (swal), . [< ME. swale, shade; per- 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 93. baps connected with swafe 2 or with sirnal 1 .] 
2. A man who travels in search of employ- \ - , A 8h ? (le ' or s )! adv ?P ot - [ Prov - Eng.] 2. 
--- ' . - . A low place ; a slight depression in a region in 
general nearly level, especially one of the low- 
er tracts of what is called in the western United 
States "rolling prairie." These depressions are usu- 
ally moister than the adjacent higher land, and often have 
a ranker vegetation, due to the enrichment resulting from 
ment: so called because he carries his swag, or 
bundle of clothes, blanket, etc. Also swags- 
man, swagger. [Australia.] 
Rememberin' the needful, I gets up an' quietly slips 
To the porch to see a swagsman with our bottle to his 
lips. J. B. Stephens, Drought and Doctrine. 
swag-shop (swag'shop), . A place where low- 
, 
the washing down of the finer and richer part of the soil 
of the higher land about them. 
priced trashy goods are sold; formerly, a plun- SWale 2 (swal), o. [< Icel. srtilr = Sw. Dan. 
der-depot, Hotten. [Slang.] 
Swage-biock. 
swaimish, a. A dialectal form of squeamish. 
swain (swan), . [< ME. swain, swayn, swein, 
xweyn, < late AS. swein, < Icel. sveinn, a boy, . 
lad, servant, = Sw. sren = Dan. svend, a swain, swale 3 (swal), 
servant, = AS. swan = OS. swen = LG. sween = form of gulden : 
OHG. swein, a herdsman, swain; perhaps ult. 
akin to son 1 ; but not, as has been supposed, 
directly related to swine. Hence, in comp. , boat- 
swain, contr. boson, and coxswain, contr. coxon."] 
If. A young man or boy in service; a servant. 
Worschipe me here, & bicome my stcayn, 
And y schal geue thee al this. 
sval, cool; cf. Icel. sral, a cool breeze, sralar, 
n. pi., a kind of balcony running along a wall, 
= Sw. Dan. grate, a gallery.] Bleak ; windy. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
[< ME. gicl(ti ; a secondary 
see siren? 1 .] I. iiitrans. To 
melt and run down, as from heat; show the 
effects of great heat, whether by melting or 
by burning slowly. 
II. trans. To bum, whether by singeing or 
by causing to melt or to run down ; especially, 
to dress, as an animal killed for food, by sing'e- 
ing off the hair. [Prov. Eng. in both uses.] 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E.T.S.), p. 44. swale 3 (swal), n. [< swaleS, r .] A gutter in a 
Hym boes serve hymselne that has na swayn. candle. [Prov Eng ] 
Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1.107. swallowl (swol'd), v. [Early mod. E. also 
^t. A young man in attendance on a knight; woiow, sicolow ; < ME. sirolnwen, mcolicfn, gtml- 
a squire. J P))J girolfghni. simllii n. orig. a strong verb. >/<-,/- 
