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Let our proportions for these wars 
Be soon collected, and all things thought upon, 
That may with reasonable swiftness add 
More feathers to our wings. Shakspearc. 
To SWIG, v. n. [ swiga , Icel. Serenius and Lye refer to 
this Icel. word; the latter to the Sax. jpiljan, also, to swill.'] 
To drink by large draughts. 
To SWIG, v. a. To suck greedily. 
The flock is drain’d, the lambkins swig the teat, 
But find no moisture, and then idly bleat. Creech. 
SWIG, s. A large draught: as, he took a good swig. 
A low expression. 
To SWILL, v. a. [ppilgan, Sax.] To drink luxuriously 
and grossly. 
The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar, 
That spoil’d your summer fields and fruitful vines. 
Swills your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough 
In your embowell’d bosoms. Shakspeare. 
The most common of these causes are an hereditary dis¬ 
position, and swilling down great quantities of cold liquors. 
Arbuthnot. 
Such is the poet, fresh in pay, 
The third night’s profits of his play; 
His morning draughts till noon can swill. 
Among his brethren of the quill. Swift. 
To wash ; to drench. 
As fearfully as doth a galled rock 
O’erhang and jutty his confounded base. 
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Shakspeare. 
To inebriate; to swell with plenitude. 
I should be loth 
To meet the rudeness and swill'd insolence 
Of such late wassailers. • Milton. 
To SWILL, v. n. To be intoxicated.—As though he 
were delighted with drinking, and swilling, and gaming. 
Whateley. 
SWILL, s. Drink, grossly poured down; hogwash.— 
Give swine such swill as you have. Mortimer. 
Thus as they swim in mutual swill, the talk 
Reels fast from theme to theme. Thomson. 
SWILLAND, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 6 miles 
north-by-east of Ipswich. 
SWI'LLER, s. M notorious drunkard; called also, in 
our old lexicogiaphy, a swilbowl and a swilpot. Barret. 
SWELLINGS, s. Hogwash. Cotgrave and Sherwood. 
A northern term. Grose. 
SWILLINGTON, a parish of England, West Riding of 
Yorkshire; 6 miles east-south-east of Leeds. Population 490. 
SWILLY, a river of Ireland, in the county of Donegal, 
which runs into the Swilly Lough. 
SWILLY, a small island or rock in the South ocean, 
about 13 miles south from the south cape of New Holland, 
surrounded with rocks and shoals. Lat. 43. 55. S. long. 
147.6. E 
To SWIM, v. n. preterite swam, swam, or swum, [ppim- 
man. Sax.; swemmen, Dutch.] To float on the water; not 
to sink.—I wilP-scarce think you have swam in a gondola. 
Shakspeare. —To move progressively in the water by the 
motion of the limbs. 
Leap in with me into this angry flood, 
And swim to yonder point, Shakspeare. 
To be conveyed by the stream.—I sworn with the tide, 
and the water under me was buoyant. Dryden. —To glide 
along with a smooth or dizzy motion. 
She with pretty and with swimming gait 
Following. Shakspeare; 
To be dizzy; to be vertiginous. See Swimming. —To 
be floated.—Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim ! 
Thomson.*— To have abundance of any quality; to flow in 
any thing, 
They now swim in joy, 
Ere Long to swim at large, and laugh; for which 
The world a world of tears must weep. Milton* 
To SWIM, v. a. To pass by swimming. 
Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main, 
By stretch of arms the distant shore to gain. Dryden. 
SWIM, s. A kind of smoothly sliding motion.—Both 
the swim and the trip are properly mine; every body will 
affirm it that has any judgment in dancing, I assure you. 
B. Jonson. —The bladder of fishes by which they are sup¬ 
ported in the water.—The braces have the nature and use of 
tendons, in contracting the swim, and thereby transfusing 
the air out of one bladder into another, or discharging it 
from them both. Grew . 
SWIMBRIDGE, a parish of England, in Devonshire. 
A brook runs from hence into the Taw. Population 1150: 
4 miles south-east-by-east of Barnstaple. 
SWl'MMER, s. One who swims.—Birds find ease in 
the depth of the air as swimmers do in a deep water. Brown. 
—A protuberance in the leg of a horse.—The swimmer is 
situated in the fore legs of a horse, above the knees, and upon 
the inside, and almost upon the back parts of the hind legs, 
a little below the ham; this part is without hair, and re¬ 
sembles a piece of hard dry horn. Farrier's Diet. 
SWl'MMING, s. The act of floating on the water, or of 
moving progressively in the water by the motion of the 
limbs. Dizziness.—I am taken with a grievous swimming 
in my head, and such a mist before my eyes, that I can 
neither hear nor see. Dryden. 
SWI'MMINGLY, ado. Smoothly; without obstruction. 
A low word. —John got on the battlements, and called to 
Nick, I hope the cause goes on swimmingly. Arbuthnot. 
SWINBROOK, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire; 2J 
miles east of Burford. 
SWINBURN Great, a township of England, in Nor¬ 
thumberland ; 6| miles north-by-east of Hexham. Popula¬ 
tion 387. 
SWINBURN, Little, a township of England, in the 
above county; 9 miles north-by-east of Hexham. 
SWINCOMBE, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire; 8 
miles north-west-by-north of Henley-upon-Thames. 
S WIND ALE, a hamlet of England, in Westmoreland ; 
8 miles west-north-west of Orton. 
SWINDEN, a hamlet of England, West Riding of York¬ 
shire ; 8 miles south-south-east of Settle. 
SWINDERBY, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 
6| miles south-west-by-west of Lincoln. 
To SWI'NDLE, v , a. To cheat: to impose upon the 
credulity of mankind, and thereby to defraud the unwary by 
false pretences and fictitious assumptions. A cant word. 
James. 
SWI'NDLER, s. [from the Germ, schwindler .] A 
sharper; a cheat.—-With us, it signifies a person who is 
more than thoughtless or giddy. We affix to the term the 
character of premeditated imposition ; so that a swindler 
comes under the criminal code, and may be prosecuted ac¬ 
cordingly. James. 
SWINDON, a market town of England, in the county of 
Wilts. It is a respectable town, and situated on the summit 
of a considerable eminence, which commands a delightful 
prospect over parts of Berkshire, and Gloucestershire. There 
is no particular trade carried on here; but, as a number of 
persons of independent fortune reside in the town, their con¬ 
stant intercourse enlivens the place, while their dwellings 
serve, in no small degree, to ornament it. The houses in 
the town are mostly well built of stone. The church stands 
at the south-east end of the town. The architecture is mean, 
but the interior is neatly fitted up, and contains several monu¬ 
mental erections, one of which, on the east side of the south 
aisle, is of excellent design and exquisite workmanship. In 
Newport-street is a very respectable free school, which was 
established in 1764, for the instruction of 20 boys and 5 
girls, and is supported entirely by voluntary contribution. 
Adjoining the church-yard is a water-mill of peculiar con¬ 
struction. 
