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V. bpan.] A court touching matters of the forest, kept by 
the charter of the forest thrice in the year. This court of 
swainmote is as incident to a forest, as the court of pie¬ 
powder is to a fair. The swainmote is a court of freeholders 
■within the forest. Cowel. —A forest hath her court of at¬ 
tachments, swainmote-coxxxi, &c. Howell. 
SWAINSCOE, a township of England, in Staffordshire ; 
8± miles east-north-east of Cheadle. 
SWAINSTHORPE, a village of England, in Norfolk, 
containing the parishes of St. Mary and St. Peter; 4J miles 
north-north-east of St. Mary Stratton. 
SWAINSWICK, a parish of England, in Somersetshire; 
3 miles north-by-east of Bath. 
To SWAIP, v. n. To walk proudly; our northern dia¬ 
lect for sweep. 
SWALCLIFFE, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire; 6 
miles west-south-west of Banbury. 
To SWALE, or To Sweal, v. n. [ppelan, Saxon, to 
kindle; to burn.] To waste or blaze away; to melt: as, 
the candle swales. 
Into his face the brond he forst, his huge beard brent a light, 
And sweating made a stinke. P/iaer. 
To SWALE, v. a. To consume; to waste. 
Nor has our hymeneal torch 
Yet lighted up his last most grateful sacrifice, 
But dash’d with rain from eyes, and swail'd with sighs, 
Burn dim. Congreve. 
SWALE, a river of England, which rises in the north¬ 
western hills of Yorkshire, on the confines of Westmore¬ 
land, and running south-east, passes by Richmond and 
Thirsk, and falls into the Ure, about 4 miles below Borough- 
bridge. 
SWALE, East and West, two branches of the river 
Medway, in England, which run into the Thames, the 
former below Sherless, and the latter, or main stream, at 
Sheemess. The oyster fishing chiefly lies upon the coasts of 
the former, from Colemansole to the Snout Wears, and so to 
the Ride. 
SWALLET, s. [swall. Swed. the swell of the sea. 
Serenius.] Among the tin-miners, water breaking in upon 
the miners at their work. 'Bailey. 
SWALLOW, s. [j-palepe, Saxon; swala, Su. Goth, 
idem; sic diet, a Su. Goth, swale, porticus, subdivale, 
quippe ubi nidum struere solet hsec avis. Serenius.'] A 
small bird of passage; or, as some say, a bird that lies hid 
and sleeps in the winter.—The swallow follows not summer 
more willingly than we your Lordship. Shakspeare. 
To SWALLOW, v. a. [ppelgan, Saxon; swclgen, 
Dutch.] To take down the throat. 
If little faults 
Shall not be wink’d at, how shall we stretch our eye, 
Whose capital crimes chew’d, swallow'd, and digested, 
Appear before us ? Shakspeare. 
To receive without examination.—Consider and judge of 
it as a matter of reason, and not swallow it without exami¬ 
nation as a matter of faith. Locke. —To engross; to appro¬ 
priate: often with up emphatical.—Homer excels all the 
inventors of other arts in this, that he has swallowed up the 
honour of those who succeeded him. Pope. —To absorb ; 
to take in; to sink in any abyss ; to engulph : with up. 
Though you unite the winds, and let them fight. 
Against the churches, though the yesty waves 
Confound and swallow navigation up. Shakspeare. 
To occupy.—The necessary provision for life swallows 
the greatest part of their time. Locke. —To seize and waste. 
Corruption swallow'd what the liberal hand 
Of bounty scatter’d. Thomson. 
To engross; to engage completely. The priest and the 
prophet are swallowed up of wine. Isaiah.—Swallow im¬ 
plies, in all its figurative senses, some nauseous or contemp¬ 
tuous idea, something of grossness or of folly. 
SWALLOW, s. \swalg, Su. Goth.] The throat; vo¬ 
racity. Had this man of merit and mortification been 
called to account for his ungodly swallow, in gorging down 
the estates of helpless widows and orphans, he would have 
told them that it was all for charitable uses. South.— A 
gulf; a whirlpool. 
This iEneas is come to paradise 
Out of the swolowe of hell. Chaucer . 
SWALLOW, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 3 
miles east-north-east of Caistor. 
SWALLOW BAY, a bay on the north coast of Egmont 
island, between Hanway’s point and Swallow point. 
SWALLOW HARBOUR, a very convenient harbour 
on the shore of Terra del Fuego. It is well sheltered from 
all winds, and excellent in every respect. There are two 
channels into it, which are both narrow, but not dangerous, 
as the rocks are easily discovered by the weeds that grow 
upon them. It is surrounded by steep mountains, covered 
with snow, which have a most horrid appearance, and seem 
to be altogether deserted by every thing that has life. Lat. 
53. 40. S. long. 74. 30. W. 
SWALLOW ISLAND, one of those called Queen Char¬ 
lotte’s islands, in the South Pacific ocean; about 6 leagues 
in length. Lat. 10. 8. S. long. 165. 58. E. 
SWALLOW POINT, a cape on the north coast of the 
island of Egmont in the South Pacific ocean. Lat. 10. 42. 
S. long. 164. 26. E. 
SWALLOWCLIFFE, a parish of England, in Wilt¬ 
shire ; 5k miles south-east of Hindon. 
SWALLOWFIELD, a parish of England, in Wiltshire; 
6 miles south-by-east of Reading. Population 365. 
SWA'LLOWTAIL, s. A species of willow.—The 
shining willow they call swallowtail, because of the plea¬ 
sure of the leaf. Bacon. 
SWA'LLOWWORT, s. [asclepia.] A plant. 
SWALLY, a sea-port town of Hindostan, province of 
Gujerat. It is situated at the mouth of the Taptee river, 
and is the anchoring place for ships having cargoes on board 
for Surat, of which it may be considered as the port. Lat. 
21.5. N. long. 72. 50. E, 
SWALUVE, or Zwaluwe, a village of the Netherlands, 
in North Brabant, containing 2100 inhabitants; 10 miles 
north-north-west of Breda. 
SWAM, [ppam, Sax.] The preterite of swim. 
SWAMMERDAM (John), a distinguished anatomist 
and naturalist, was born at Amsterdam in 1637, and design¬ 
ed by his father, who was an apothecary in that city, for 
the church: but his own inclinations were directed to 
physic, which became the object of his study, together with 
several branches of natural history, particularly entomology. 
At an early age he made many excursions for the purpose of 
enlarging his collection of winged insects. At Leyden, 
where he studied physic, he was distinguished by his skill 
and assiduity in anatomical experiments and the art of 
making preparations. At Paris he was intimate with 
Nicholas Stenonius in 1664, whilst he visited that city and 
France with a view to further improvement; On his return 
to Leyden he took the degree of M.D. in 1667, publishing 
on the occasion a thesis on respiration. At this time he 
began to practise his invention of injecting the vessels with 
ceraceous matter: a method from which anatomy has 
derived very important advantages. He applied very 
closely to dissection with Van Horne: and in the dissection 
of insects he was singularly dexterous by the aid of instru¬ 
ments of his own invention. The grand duke of Tuscany, 
who visited Holland in 1668, and who was introduced to 
Swammerdam by Thevenot, made him a liberal offer for his 
share of the collection, on condition of his removal to 
Florence; but he rejected the offer, on account of his 
abhorrence of the restraints of a court-life, and impatience 
of any controul in his religion. Entomology was his 
favourite and principal pursuit; and in 1669 he published, 
in Dutch, “ A General History of Insects,” Utrecht, 4to.; 
afterwards reprinted, and translated into French and Latin, 
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