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lookers or beholders dwell; in which, and from which, they 
may be haply said to perform their offices. Smith. 
SU'TURE, s. [ sutura , Lat.] A manner of sewing or 
stitching, particularly of stitching wounds.—Wounds, if held 
in close contact for some time, reunite by inosculation; to 
maintain this situation, several sorts of sutures have been 
invented; those now chiefly described are the interrupted, 
the glovers, the quill’d, the twisted and the dry sutures, but 
the interrupted and twisted are almost the only useful ones. 
Sharp. —A particular articulation : the bones of the cranium 
are joined to one another by four sutures. Quincy. —Many 
of our vessels degenerate into ligaments, and the sutures 
of the skull are abolished in old age. Arbuthnot. 
SUURSAY, a small island of the Hebrides, in the west of 
Harris. 
SOWAIDA, a small town of Hedsjas, in Arabia; 30 
miles north of Medina. 
SUWALKI, a small town in the north-east of Poland; 
17 miles north of Augustowo, and 149 north-north-east of 
Warsaw. Population 1200. 
SUZANNE, St., a small town in the north-west of 
France, department of the Mayenne, on the small river 
Erve, with 1400 inhabitants; 27 miles south-west of 
Alenqon. 
SUZARA, a small town of Austrian Italy, between 
Mantua and Guastalla; 14 miles south of the former. 
SUZE, a small manufacturing place in the north-west of 
France, on the river Sarthe, with 1600 inhabitants; 12 
miles south-west of Le Mans. 
SWAB, s. [swabb, Swedish.] A kind of mop to clean 
floors. 
To SWAB, v. a. [ppebban, Saxon.] To clean with a 
mop. It is now chiefly used at sea.—He made him swab 
the deck. Shelvock's Voyage. 
SWABBER, s. [ swabber , Dutch.] A sweeper of the 
deck. 
The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I, 
Lov’d Mall, Meg, and Marrian, and Margery. Shakspeare. 
SWABY, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 4 miles 
west-north-west of Alford. 
SWACLIFFE, a parish of England, in Kent; 5£ miles 
north of Canterbury. 
SWAD, s. [from ppeSan, Sax. fasciare, quia scil. folli- 
culis, tanquam fasciis, pisa obvolvuntur. Skinner.} A 
peasecod. Still a northern word. —Take pulse out of the 
swads. Cotgrave. —A squab, or short fat person. 
Now I remember me. 
There was one busy fellow was the leader, 
A blunt squat swad, but lower than yourself. B. Jonson. 
To SWA'DDLE, v. a. [ppecSan, Saxon.] To swathe; 
to bind in clothes, generally used of binding newborn 
children. 
Invested by a veil of clouds, 
And swaddled as new-born in sable shrouds; 
For these a receptacle I design’d. Sandys. 
To beat; to cudgel. A low ludicrous word. 
Great on the bench, great in the saddle. 
That could as well bind o’er as swaddle. Hudibras. 
SWA'DDLE, s. [ppseSil, Sax.] Clothes bound round 
the body.—l begged them to uncase me: no, no, say they; 
and upon that carried me to one of their houses, and put me 
to bed in all my swaddles. Addison. 
SWADLINBAR, a neat smart village of Ireland, in the 
county of Cavan, agreeably situated on the Clodah river. 
SWA'DLINGBAND, Swa'dlingcloth, or Swad- 
lingclout, s. Cloth wrapped round a new-born child. 
—That great baby you see there is not yet out of his swadd¬ 
ling-clouts. Shakspeare. 
SWADLINGCOTE, a parish of England, in Derbyshire; 
12^-miles south-south-west of Derby. 
SWAFFHAM, a market town of England, in the county 
of Norfolk, a populous, respectable, and genteel town. The 
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great butter market which was formerly kept at Downham, 
has been removed to this place. Near the town is an exten¬ 
sive heath, which forms an admirable race-ground. Swaff- 
ham races are annually held about the end of September; 
15 miles south-east of Lynn, and 94 north-north-east of 
London. 
SWAFFHAM, Balbeck, or Great Swaffham, a 
parish of England, in Cambridgeshire; 5 miles west-south¬ 
west of Newmarket. Population 571. 
SWAFFHAM, Prior, or Little Swaffham, a village 
of England, in the above county, including the parishes of 
St. Cyric and St. Mary. It has an endowed free school, 
and is about ] mile distant from Great Swaffham. Popula¬ 
tion 803. 
SWAFIELD, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 1J mile 
north-by-east of North Walsham. 
To SWAG, v. n. [pigan, Sax.; sweigia, Icelandic.] 
To sink down by its weight; to hang heavy. See To Sag. 
—They are more apt, in swagging down, to pierce with 
their points, that in the jacent posture, and crevice the wall. 
Wotton. —Being a tall fish, and with his sides much com¬ 
pressed, he hath a long fin upon his back, and another an¬ 
swering to it on his belly; by which he is the better kept 
upright, or from swagging on his sides. Grew. 
SWA'GBELLIED, ad). Having a large belly.—Your 
Dane, your German, and your swag-bellied Hollander are 
nothing to your English. Shakspeare. 
To SWAGE, v. a. [from assuage; which see.] To 
ease; to soften ; to mitigate; to appease; to quiet. 
I love thee. 
Though my distracted senses should forsake. 
I’d find some intervals, when my poor heart 
Should swage itself, and be let loose to thine. Otway. 
To SWAGE, v. n. To abate.—It swageth, or waxeth 
cold. Barret. 
To SWA'GGER, v. n. [swaddere7i, Dutch, to make 
a noise; pjregan, Saxon.] To bluster; to bully; to be tur- 
bulently and tumultuously proud and insolent.—’Tis the 
gage of one that I should fight withal, if he be alive; a rascal 
that swagger'd with me last night. Shakspeare. 
SWA’GGERER, s. A blusterer; a bully; a turbulent 
noisy fellow.—He’s no swaggerer, hostess; a tame cheater; 
you may stroke him as genfle as a puppy greyhound. Shak¬ 
speare. 
SWA'GGY, ad). Dependent by its weight.—The beaver 
is called animal ventricosum, from his swaggy and promi¬ 
nent belly. Brown. 
SWAIN, s. [fpein, Saxon and Runick; swen, Su. 
Goth, puer, minister; swaina, Lappon. famulus; j-pan. 
Sax. bubulcus. See Lye, and Serenius.] A young man. 
That good knight would not so nigh repair. 
Himself estranging from their joyance vain. 
Whose fellowship seem’d far unfit for warlike swain. 
Spenser. 
A country servant employed in husbandry. 
It were a happy life 
To be no better than a homely swain. Shakspeare. 
A pastoral youth. 
Blest swains ! whose nymphs in every grace excel; 
Blest nymphs! whose swahis those graces sing so well. 
Pope. 
SWAINBY, a hamlet of England, North Riding of York¬ 
shire; 5j miles east south-east of Bedale. 
SWAINE, Cape, a cape on one of the numerous islets 
on the north-west coast of North America. Lat. 52. 13. N. 
long 231. 40. E, 
SWA'INISH, ad). Rustic; ignorant.—[It] argues both 
a gross and shallow judgment, and withal an ungentle and 
swainisli breast. Milton. 
SWA'INMOTE, s. [ swain7notus, law Lat. Dr. John¬ 
son.— -From ppan. Sax. bubulcus; swainmote, curia quse- 
dam forestse, ita dicta, quasi ministrorum forester, scil. 
agistatorum aliorumque conventus. Lye, edit'. Manning, in 
9 M V. Span.] 
