List of Old English Words in the OED/SW

Old English	n	English
Swafe	n	A swinging blow or stroke. 2. momentum. 3. a kind of sling or ballista.
Swain	n	A young man attending; hence a man of low degree. 2. a male servant, attendant, follower. 3. a man, youth, boy. 4. a country youth or farm laborer. 5. a shepherd; a rustic, a countryman. 6. a country gallant or lover, a wooer, a sweetheart (literary). 7. a freeholder within a forest.
Swain	vb	To play the lover or wooer.
Swaining	n	Love-making, wooing.
Swainish	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a rustic, boorish. 2. nature of a rustic lover or rustic love-making.
Swainishness	n	Boorishness.
Swainling	n	A poor or young swain or rustic. 2. a rustic female sweetheart.
Swainmote	n.	Swain + mote: meeting: (Eng. Forest Law). a court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury. Written also swanimote, and sweinmote. Swanimote.
Swainship	n	The condition of being a swan.
Swaip	n	A whip, scourge. 2. a blow, stroke, hit.
Swaip	vb	To strike, beat.
Swallow	n	"Hirundo rustica" - well known migratory birds, a harbinger of summer. 2. in allusion to the swift flight of the bird. 3. small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations.
Swallow	phr	"One Swallow Doesn't Make A Summer" - one good omen or sign does not make a good forecast or outcome. 2. much further evidence is needed before any action taken.
Swallow	n	A deep open hole in the earth, a pit, abyss. 2. an opening or cavity, usu. in limestone, into which or through which a stream disappears underground. 3. a gulf, abyss, sink (of evil). 4. throat, gullet, pharynx or these collectively; the gorge. 5. the act of swallowing. 6. taste; relish; inclination; liking. 7. capacity for swallowing; voracity. 8. as much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water. 9. that which engulfs; a whirlpool. (Obs.)
Swallow	vb	Pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; swallow, get down. 2. engulf and destroy; like an invading army. 3. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up. 4. utter indistinctly; 5. take back what one has said; swallow one's own words, swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw. 6. keep from expressing; swallowed one's anger. 7. tolerate or accommodate oneself to; accept, live with. 8. believe or accept without questioning or challenge;
Swallow	phr	"A Bit Hard to Swallow" - not to be readily acceptable.
Swallow	phr	"Swallow One's Pride" - to set aside one's feeling of pride and adopt a more humble appropriate stance.
Swallow	phr	"Swallow One's Words" - to take back what one ha said; to retract one's words;
Swallow	phr	"Swallow the Line" - to accept as truth the story being proffered.
Swallow	phr	"Swallow Up" - to completely enclose or consume, exhaust (a person or thing). 2. make somebody disappear, as if taking him in like food (as the jungle, earth, etc)
Swallower	n	A voracious eater.
Swallow dive	n	A dive starting with arms outstretched. 2. a sharp drop; a sharp decline.
Swallower	n	One who swallows.
Swallow fish	n	Trigia hirundo, the European gurnard.
Swallow-hole	n	A sink-hole. 2. a depression in the ground connecting with an underground passage (esp. in limestone) formed by solution or a collapse of a cavern roof.
Swallow-tail	n	A man's dress coat withtwo long tapering skjirts or tails. 2. a butterfly having a posterior, tail-like prolongation on each hind wing. 3.
Swallow-wort	n	Any of the several vines of the genus Cyanchus; a teeterwort; the great celandine.
Swan	n	Stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult. 2. any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. 3. fig.: An appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace and melody - Shakespeare - "The swan of Avon". 4. the constellation Cygnus.
Swan	vb	To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear. 2. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; roll, wander, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond. 3. sweep majestically.
Swan	phr	"All Your Geese are Swans" - all your children are paragons, and whatever you do is in your eyes superlative work.
Swan	phr	"All Your Swans are Geese" - all your fine promises or expectations have proved fallacious.
Swan dive	n	A dive starting with arms outstretched. 2. a sharp drop; a sharp decline.
Swan goose	n	A hybrid between a male swan and a female goose; a swoose.
Swan herd	n	A group of swans tended by a swanherder.
Swan herder	n	One who cares for swans, especially a royal officer in charge of swans on the Thames.
Swanimote	n	Swain + mote meeting: (Eng. Forest Law). a court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury. Written also sweinmote. Swainmote.
Swank	adj	Active, agile, nimble. 2. in odern usage: fashionable, stylish, chic
Swanless	adj	Of an area without swans.
Swan-like	adj	Similar to a swan. 2. similar to that of a swan. 3. graceful and curving; moving with stately grace. 4. fig. as beauty like a swan.
Swanling	n	Young swan; baby swan; cygnet.
Swanning	adj	Moving about aimlessly, irresponsibly and in a careless manner.
Swanly	adv	In a swan-like manner.
Swan mark	n	A mark of ownership cut into the mandible of a swan.
Swan maiden	n	A mythical creature who shiftshapes from human form to the form of a swan.
Swannish	adj	Somewhat like a swan.
Swan shot	n	A large size of shot used in hunting wildfowl or other small game.
Swan-song	n	A final performance or effort, esp. before retirement or death; a last hurrah.
Swan's tongue	n	Old name for hemp nettle: "Galeopsis tetrabit."
Swan upper	n	A person who engages in swan upping.
Swan upping	n	An annual ceremony in England in which mute swans on the River Thames are rounded up, caught, ringed and then released.
Swan-white	adj	Pure white; snow white.
Sward	n	(O.E. skin) hide, skin, rind. 2. skin of the body; esp. the rind of pork or bacon.
Sward	n	The surface or upper layer of ground, earth, usu. covered with herbage. 2. a growth of grass. 3. land thickly covered with grass; turf. a stretch of green sward. 4. the skin of bacon.
Sward	vb	To form a sward, etc. 2. to cover or become covered with a sward.
Sward	phr	"A Green Sward." - the surface of soil covered with other herbage, turf.
Sward	n	"A Head Sward." - the scalp; headsward.
Swarded	adj	Covered by green herbage. 2. covered by sward, skin, rind, hide.
Swardy	adj	Turfy, herb-covered. 2. rindy, cutaneous.
Sware	n	Oath-swearing, answer, reply, speech, word.
Swarf	n	Any fine waste or filing produced by machining; esp. in the form of strips or ribbons. 2. the material cut out of gramophone record as the groove is made.
Swarfed	adj	Soiled or made unclean with swart or filing waste.
Swarm	n	A moving crowd; drove, horde. 2: a group of many things in the air or on the ground; cloud. 2. a large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion. 3. especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen. 4. hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites. 5. multitude; crowd; throng.
Swarm	vb	To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer. 2. to climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. 3. to appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude. 4. to be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion. 5. to abound; to be filled (with). 5. to breed multitudes. 6. to be teeming, be abuzz; teem, pullulate. 7. move in large numbers; pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate.
Swarm	phr	"Swarm Over/Through/With/Out" - gather or move in large numbers (like a swarm of bees).
Swarmed	adj	Of people: assembled in a crowd, congregated, massed, thronged.
Swarmer	n	A person or thing that swarms. 2. an insect that swarms, as a bee or gnat.
Swarminess	n	The quality of being swarmy.
Swarming	n	The action of swarming, congregating, thronging.
Swarming	adj	Assembling or moving in a swarm; crowded, numerous. 2. filled with a multitude, densely covered, populated.
Swarmy	adj	Swarming, thronged, populous, crowdy.
Swart	adj	Of skin, complexion: livid through suffering or emotion, black, coated in black; swarthy. 2. black, wicked, iniquitous, baleful, malignant; denigratory. 3. swarthy; also poetically absolutely black. 4. malignant, gloomy.
Swart	vb	To be black, dark, dusty, swarthy. 2. to make black, darken, swarthy, denigrate.
Swart-back	n	The great black-backed gull (Larus marinus).
Swart back	adj	Of a dark hue, moderately black.
Swarten	vb	To make dark; darken. 2. to become dark.
Swarth	n	The surface or upper layer of ground, earth, usu. covered with herbage; sward. 2. a growth of grass. 3. a stretch of green sward. 4. an unripe crop of hay. 5. an apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.
Swarth	vb	To darken, make black or dusty.
Swarth	adj	Dusty, swarthy, black, swartish.
Swarthily	adv	In a swarthy manner,
Swarthiness	n	Having a dusty, dark or darkish complexion or colour. 2. the property of being swarthy
Swarthish	adj	Somewhat swarthy, dark, dusty, blackish, swartish.
Swarthliness	n	The condition or state of being swarthy, dark, blackish, dusty in color or complexion. 2. swartness
Swarthness	n	The quality of being swart; duskiness, blackness, nigrescent.
Swarthy	adj	Naturally having skin of a dark color; "swart' is archaic"; dark-skinned, dusky, swart, tawny. 2. being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny; swart. 3. black, blackish, brunet, coal-black, dark, dark-colored, dark-skinned, darkish, darksome, dusk, dusky, ebon, ebony, funereal, grave, nigrescent, pitch-black, raven, sable, sad, sober, somber, somber, swart, swarth.
Swartiness	n	Alternate form of swarthiness.
Swartish	adj	Swarthish.
Swartness	n	Swarthiness.
Swarthy	vb	To make swarthy. [Obs.]
Swath	n	Track, trace, spoor (lit & fig). 2. space or extent covered by a sweep of a scythe, sickle or mower. 2. a measure of ground - the longitudinal division of a field. 3. a row or line of a grass or other crop, as it falls or lies when mowed or reaped. 4. applied to growing grass or corn ready for reaping. 5. to cut a swath to make a pompous display, 6. apparel, array, attire, belt, bend, bundle, case, cinch, clothe, cover, crate, deck, garb, garment, gird, girdle, robe, roll, rope, sheathe, shroud, strap. 6. a broad track, belt, strip or longitudinal extent of a thing. 7. to mow down in battle, with a sickle or scythe.
Swath	phr	"A Wide Swath" - make a pompous display, cut a dash.
Swathe	n	A band of linen, woollen or other materials; a wrapping. 2. an infants swaddling bands. 3. a surgical bandage. 4. a wrapping, a covering, membrane, integument. 5. an object that enwraps, as a cloud. 6. so that they restricts or constrains like a swaddling band. 6.
Swathe	vb	Wrap in swaddling clothes; swaddle, swathe. 2.to bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers. 2. to array, attire, bandage, bedeck, bedrape, bend, bind, bind up, box, brace, bundle up, cinch, clothe, cover, crate, deck, dight, do up, drape, dress, dud, embox, embrace, encapsulate, encase, enclothe, endue, enfold, enrobe, enshroud, enswathe, envelop, enwrap, garb, gird, girth, robe, roll, rope, sheathe, shroud, smother, splice, strap up, surround, swaddle,tie up, tire,
Swathe	phr	"Swathe In" - wrap something tightly around (as a blanket around a child).
Swathed	adj	Wrapped in swaddling clothes. 2. swaddled, enwraps, covered.
Swather	n	One who wraps or swathes.
Swathing	n	The action in which something is wrapped in linen. 2. enveloping, enwrapping, swathing. 3. pertaining or consisting of swaths or wrappings, etc.
Swathy	adj	Of or like a swathe, in mowing.
Sweal	vb	To be subjected to heat or slow burning. 2. to consume to fire, burn, set fire to, singe, scorch. 3. to roast meat, such as lamb, beef, etc. 4. to cause grass to dry and wither. 5. to burn in fire or as a fire. 6. to be consumed by fire; to become scorched; to become burning hot. 7. of tallow of a candle: to melt away, run down, waste away, to gutter.
Swealed	adj	Scorched, singed, roast whole in the skin (like a sheep.)
Swealing	n	The action of burning or singeing for a special purpose.
Sweam	n	Grief, affliction. 2. a sudden fit of swooning; a soon, a faint.
Sweam	vb	To afflict, grieve, mourn. 2. to be overcome with faintness, swooming.
Sweamful	adj	Grievous, distressing.
Sweamly	adv	In a distressful way, swoonfully, faintfully.
Swear	vb	To take an oath. 2. to use offensive language.
Swear	phr	"Swear At" - direct bad language or curses at somebody.
Swear	phr	"Swear Black and Blae" - to assert vigorously and emphatically.
Swear	phr	"Swear Black and White" - emphatically or stubbornly that something is true, is the case, when it is not true, not so.
Swear	phr	"Swear Black is White" - assert a falsehood.
Swear	phr	"Swear Blind (that)" - affirm something emphatically that something is the case, even though it may not be so .
Swear	phr	"Swear By" - to wholeheartedly trust or great confidence in something as a remedy. 2. appeal to somebody or something sacred as saying something is the case.
Swear	phr	"Swear Down" - to promise something is not true; to promise, swear; give one's word.
Swear	phr	"Swear In" - to administer an an oath to, as an oath of office or of citizenship. 2. make somebody take an oath to be truthful, fair, etc., in court. 4. admit as a member to a society by making take an oath. 5. formally install somebody into an office or position.
Swear	phr	"Swear Off - to quit or cease completely, or to promise to quit, as a bad habit. 2. promise to abandon, stop doing or abstain off.
Swear	phr	"Swear On" - appeal to somebody or something sacred in saying something is so.
Swear	phr	"Swear Out" - to obtain (a warrant or the like) by swearing to fact.
Swear	phr	Swear To" - be sure that something is the case, is right.
Swear box	n	A money box, used to collect a nominal fine from a person using foul language.
Swearer	n	One or swears or uses foul language.
Swearing	n	The act, or an instance, of using foul language.
Swearing-in	n	See 'swear in."
Swearsome	adj	Characterized or marked by swearing.
Swear-word	n	A word considered taboo, impolite or offensive.
Sweary	adj	Inclined to swear. 2. characterized by bad language.
Sweat	n	Perspiration or fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation. 2.(military slang) a soldier (especially one who is old or experienced. 3. moisture issuing from any substance. 4. a short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise. 5. hard work; toil. 6. a state of eagerness, anxiety.
Sweat	vb	To emit sweat. 2. to work hard. 3. to worry. 3. to emit in the manner of sweat. 4. to solder together 5. to cook slowly. 6. to lose weight by sweating (from heavy exercise, sauna, etc.)
Sweat	phr	"Blood Sweat and Tears" - hard work and much effort.
Sweat	phr	"In a Cold Sweat" - apprehensive, afraid or frightened.
Sweat	phr	"Lose One's Sweat" - lose one's life-blood; to tine, leave, lose the sweat or one's life blood.
Sweat	phr	"No Sweat" - no bother or trouble.
Sweat	phr	"Old Sweat" - somebody who is experienced or long serving.
Sweat	phr	"Sweat Blood" - be in an agony or fear.
Sweat	phr	"Sweat It Out" - to do hard physical work and as a result sweat profusely or copiously. 2. to keep going, persevere, in an unpleasant, difficult situation; suffer endure such a situation. 3. to wait anxiously for something to happen.
Sweat	phr	"Sweat Like a Horse/Pig" - to sweat profusely; to perspire a lot.
Sweat	phr	"Sweat Off" - to get rid of body weight by making oneself sweat. 2. get rid of an illness by sweating a lot.
Sweat	phr	"Sweat Of One's Brow" - the effort extended in labor, and the labor created thereby through one's hard work.
Sweat	phr	"Sweat One's Guts Out" - work extremely hard.
Sweat	phr	"Sweat Out" - to secrete sweat because of heat. 2. to endure, go through, suffer. 3. wrap up warmly, and by sweating get rid of a cold.
Sweat-band	n	????A band, usually of leather, inside the crown of a hat to protect it from sweat.
Sweatbox	n	A boxlike structure used to induce sweating, such as of hides, dried fruits or tobacco. 2. any, very hot, closed room. 3. a place where a prisoner is put to been thoroughly interrogated.
Sweat cloth	n	The cloth under a horse's saddle.
Sweat-drenched	adj	Covered or saturated in perspiration.
Sweat drop	n	A drop of sweat.
Sweated	adj	Characterized by sweatshop conditions.
Sweater	n	???
Sweatily	adv	In a sweaty manner.
Sweatless	adj	Having no sweat; devoid of sweat or perspiration.
Sweathouse	n	Sauna, steambath, sweat lodge.
Sweatiness	n	The state or condition of being sweaty.
Sweating	n	The production and evapoaration of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
Sweating sickness	n	An unidentified, highly virulent disease with aches and sweating, the cause of a series of epidemics in England and Europe between 1545 and 1551.
Sweat shirt	n	A loose, warm sweater, typically made of cotton, worn when exercising or as leisurewear.
Sweat-shop	n	A factory or other place of work here is low and conditions are poor or even illegal
Sweat-soaked	adj	Soaked with sweat
Sweaty	adj	Covered by sweat. 2. causing sweat.
Sweb	vb	To faint, swoon, to put to sleep, to sweve.
Swebby	adj	Faint.
Sweedle	vb	To swindle by wheedling.
Sweep	vb	To clean rooms, yards; or to clear away dust, dirt, litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like. 2. to brush swiftly and lightly over the surface of anything; as if brushing the surface of anything; to move in a stately manner. 3. to pass over anything comprehensively; to range through with rapidity; as, his eye sweeps through space. 4. to pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney. Used also figuratively, as in the wind sweeps the snow from the hills. 5. to carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion, like a peacock. 6. to strike with a long stroke. 8. to draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net. 8. to pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope.
Sweep	n.	The act of sweeping. 2. the compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep. 3. the compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the sweep of the eye. 4. the compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep. 5. violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease. 6. direction and extent of any motion not rectilinear; the sweep of a compass. direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the like, away from a rectilinear line. 8. a large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them. 9. a long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
Sweep	phr	"Make a Clean Sweep" - the complete removal in an election of all sitting members.
Sweep	phr	"Sweep Aside" - to push or brush to one side. 2. to overcome an obstacle with little effect. 3. to ignore, brush off. 4. dismiss comment etc, continue as if it had not been made. 5. remove abolish by vigorous action.
Sweep	phr	"Sweep Away" - to remove something by, or as if they, by sweeping. 2. to overwhelm someone emotionally sweep someone off their feet. 3. remove, carry away with great force. 4. to completely destroy.
Sweep	phr	"Sweep In/Into" - return, be returned, to office easily, by clear majority.
Sweep	phr	"Sweep Off their Feet" - to seduce someone romantically. 2. fill with enthusiasm; capivate (a girl) to make her suddenly fall in love with you.
Sweep	phr	"Sweep Out" - to remove dirt by sweeping or brushing. 2. to remove someone from a place (where they are wanted). 3.(maths) to construct a three dimensional shape by rotation on a two dimensional one about the axis. 4. leave in a proud, lordly way.
Sweep	phr	"Sweep the Board (Clean)" - win all the prizes in a competition. 2. to take all the cards in a card game. 3. to get enough votes in an election to gain all the seats.
Sweep	phr	"Sweep the Threshold" - to announce to the world that the woman of the house is paramount.
Sweep	phr	"Sweep Up" - to clean by sweeping; collect dirt etc with a broom or brush. 2. to transport to shore by waves. 3. to overwhelm.
Sweepback	n	The rearward angle of the leading edge of a wing or airfoil.
Sweep box	n	A slow evergreen ground cover Sarcococca humilis with insignificant white flowers with a sharp aroma of cinnamon and cloves.
Sweeper	n	One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney sweeper. 2. a device for cleaning carpets. 3. in soccer football a defensive player usually behind the other defenders across the width of the field.
Sweeping	n	The act of cleaning with a broom, etc.
Sweeping	adj	Taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination;"a sweeping view of the river". 2. ignoring distinctions; "wholesale ruin " 3. wide-ranging, indiscriminate. 4. an instance of sweeping. 5. an activity of sweeping.
Sweeping	adj	Wide, broad, effecting many things; encompassing.
Sweepingly	adv	In an encompassing manner.
Sweepingness	n	The quality of sweeping; broadness of scope.
Sweeping-out	phr	A clearance, clear out, a purge.
Sweepings	n	Dirt or refuse collected by sweeping.
Sweeplike	adj	Characteristic of a sweep (in all senses).
Sweep-net	n	A large net which is let out from a boat in a wide curve and hauled in from the shore.
Sweep-out	n	The removal of something by sweeping or brushing. 2. the removal of someone from a place (where they are wanted).
Sweep-washings	n	The refuse and sweepings of shops in which gold and silver are worked.
Sweepy	adj	Moving with a sweeping motion. 2. having a sweeping motion. 3. sweepy in curves, as a river, stream.
Sweer	adj	Grievous, oppressive, heavy. 2. oppressed in mind, grieved, sad. 3. disinclined for effort, inactive, indolent, lazy, slothful. 4. sloth, reluctant, unwilling, disinclined to do something.
Sweerdom	n	State of grieving, oppression or sad. 2. indolence, sloth, disinclination, reluctance.
Sweerness	n	Indolence, laziness, sloth, unwillingness, disinclination.
Sweet	adj	Having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar. 2. having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; a sweet disposition; angelic, cherubic. 3. pleasing to the ear; dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous. 4. pleasing to the senses. 5. pleasing to the mind or feeling; gratifying. 6 having a natural fragrance; "odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling. 7. wines having a high residual sugar content; dry. 8. not containing or composed of salty or brackish water; fresh watered. 9. not soured or preserved; fresh. 10: with sweetening added; sugared, sweetened. 11 a food rich in sugar; confected. 12. the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth: sugary. 13. pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion. 14. fragrant; redolent; balmy. 15. sugary; dulcet saccharine; luscious.
Sweet	n	That which is sweet to the taste; used chiefly in the plural; specifically: confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc; home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc. 2. that which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume. 3. that which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life. 4. One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment.
Sweet	phr	"All Sweetness and Light" - apparently good-tempered and friendly.
Sweet	phr	"Have a Sweet Tooth" - like eating sweet foods.
Sweet	phr	"She's Sweet" - (slang) all is well.
Sweet	phr	"Short and Sweet" - be very brief and to the point.
Sweet	phr	"Sweet and Light" - that which is good, pure and pleasant.
Sweet	phr	"Sweet and Sour" - between sweet and sour in taste. 2. having both positive and negative traits or inspiring good and bad feelings.
Sweet	phr	"Sweet As" - (elliptical 'sweet as hell') (slang): wonderful or extremely good.
Sweet	phr	"Sweet As Honey" - very sweet in taste. 2. (fig) very pleasant in speech, behavior, etc.
Sweet	phr	"Sweet As a Nut" - extremely good.
Sweet	phr	"Sweeten a Deal" - to offer some concessions or incentives.
Sweet	phr	"Sweeten the Pot" - to increase a wager. 2. to make something more desirable. 3. provide a few additional inducements.
Sweet	phr	"Sweeten Up" - to make sweeter to the taste.
Sweet	phr	"Sweet Hereafter" - heaven, paradise, as enjoyed in the afterlife. 2. the sweet hereafter, the great beyond.
Sweet	phr	"Sweet On/Upon (Somebody)" - to have a particular fondness for, or special interest in, as a young man 'love' for a young woman.
Sweet	phr	"Sweet Sixteen and Never Been Kissed" - past childhood but still young enough to be innocent, unworldly inexperienced.
Sweet	phr	"Sweet Young Thing" - an attractive young woman. 2. a sweet young woman. 3. a bright young thing (often used condescendingly by older people)
Sweet	phr	"The Sweets Of...." - the rewards of.
Sweetbox	n	A slow-growing evergreen ground cover Sarcococca humilis with insignificant white flowers with a sharp aroma of cinnamon and cloves.
Sweetbread	n	The pancreas of an animal: the thymus distinguished respectively as the heart, stomach or belly (used as a food). 2. a bribe.
Sweet butter	n	Unsalted butter.
Sweet clover	n	A species of sweet-scented trefoil or clover, with clusters of small yellow or white flowers; melilot.
Sweet corn	n	Corn on the cob, maize.
Sweeten	vb	Make sweeter in taste; sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate. 2. make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable, to be sweet. 2. to make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship. 3. to make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper. 4. to make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life. 5. to soften to the eye; to make delicate. 6. to make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten the air. 7. to make warm and fertile; - opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils. 8. to restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
Sweetening	n	A flavoring used to sweeten various kinds of food and drinks. 2. treacle, mollasses. 3. short-sweetening: sugar.
Sweetener	n	?????A substance used to sweeten food and drink. 2. (slang)a bribe or inducement.
Sweet fifteen	n	See: "sweet sixteen"
Sweetful	adj	As in look fully sweet and adorable, yet very tasteful. 2. innocent and adorable.
Sweetfully	adv	In a sweetful manner or look.
Sweet-gale	n	A branching shrub (Myrica gale), with both fertile and sterile flowers, in short, scaly catkins and resinous, dotted, fragrant leaves.???
Sweet grass	n	Varios species of aromatic grass, native to Northern Eurasia and North America.
Sweetheart	n	a lover; girlfriend; girl of one's dreams.
Sweetheart deal	n	A transaction, business deal in which one party provides particularly favorable terms to the other, especially in suspicious circumstances.
Sweet-heartedness	n	The state or quality of being sweet-hearted.
Sweethearthood	n	The state or quality of being sweet-hearted.
Sweeting	n	The sweet apple. 2. a sweetheart, dear one, darling.
Sweetish	adj	Somewhat or a little bit sweet.
Sweetishly	adv	In a sweet, kind, pleasant manner.
Sweetishness	n	The quality of being sweetish
Sweet leaf	n	The tropical shrub (Sauropus androgynous) the leaves of which are eaten as vegetable. 2. the horse sugar.
Sweet life	n	La dolce vita.
Sweet-lifer	n	One who is leading the sweet life or la dolca vivo.
Sweetly	adv	In a sweet and pleasant manner.
Sweetmaker	n	One who makes confectionery for a living.
Sweetmaking	n	The making of sweets for a living.
Sweet meal	n	Wholemeal and sweet; used to describe digestive biscuits.
Sweetmeat	n	A sweet, confectionery, candy, preserve, small cake or other sugary delicacy.
Sweetmonger	n	A manufacturer and/or dealer in confectionery.
Sweetness	n	The condition of being sweet or sugary. 2. a pleasant disposition; kindness. 3. term of address for one's sweetheart.
Sweetness	phr	"Sweetness and Light" - harmony and reason (popularised as in terms artistic, cultural and moral and political doctrines and criticism) see "Sweet and light." 2. (idiomatic, often in the negative or ironic) That which is good, pleasant, pure, etc. 3. social or political harmony.,. 4. good-natured benevolence.
Sweet pea	n	A climbing garden plant cultivated for its large fragrant blooms.
Sweet pepper	n	A mild variety of capiscum used for pickling and a vegetable.
Sweetroot	n	Liquorice.
Sweets	n	Sweet things to eat,, as puddings, cakes, jellies, lollies, etc. 2. the pleasures and gratifying things in life: the sweets of success.
Sweetshop	n	A shop selling predominantly confectionery. 2. a drug dealer.
Sweet sixteen	n	A girls sixteenth birthday. and related to the coming of age.
Sweet-smelling	adj	Having a pleasant smell.
Sweetsome	adj	Sweet, pleasant.
Sweetsop	n	The sugar apple, Annona squamosa.
Sweetspire	n	A plant of the genus Itea.
Sweet-talk	n	Smooth, but often insincere and cajoling talk.
Sweet talk	vb	To flatter, cajole,
Sweet talker	n	One who flatters or cajoles.
Sweet-tooth	n	A taste or liking for sweet or sweetened food or drink.
Sweetwater	n	Fresh water, usu. from pristine streams. 2. perfume or other sweet-smelling liquids.
Sweetweed	n	Either of the two tropical American weedof the figwort or plantain families.
Sweetwood	n	The true laurel (Laurus nobilis). 2. the timber of the jamaican tree Oreodapne leucoxylon, or of various trealted trees.
Sweetwort	n	A sweet wort ; esp. the infusion of malt, before the hops are added in the making of beer.
Sweet-writer	n	A popular, esp. a sentimental or sugary writer.
Sweety	adj	(a term of address) a person who is much loved. 2. a sweetheart. 3. a fruit that is a crossbreed between a grapefruit and a pomelo, originating in Israel.
Sweet yarrow	n	Sweet maudlin, Achillea ageratum.
Swell	n	The act of swelling. 2. increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force. 3. a long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased. 4. (music) a gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo. 5. (music) a device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ. 6. (music) a division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division. 7. a hillock or similar raised area of terrain; a small hill, barrow. 8. (informal, dated) a person who dresses in a fancy or elegant manner. 9. (informal) a person of high social standing; an important person.
Swell	vb	To become bigger, especially due to being engorged. 2. to cause to become bigger. 2. to grow gradually in force or loudness. 4. to raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate. 5. to be elated; to rise arrogantly. 6. to be turgid, bombastic, swelling words; a swelling style, bombastic. 7. to protuberate; to bulge out
Swell	phr	"Feeling Swell" - feeling happy, healthy.
Swell	phr	"Swell Up" - to be swollen. 2. rise to form a bulge on the skin.
Swellbox	n	A box or chamber in an organ that contains the reeds or a set of pipes and has shutters that open or shut usually by means of a pedal in order to regulate the volume of musical tone.
Swelldom	n	(Humorous) a person of rank and fashion; high society, the class of swells, collectively.
Swelled-head	n	An exaggerated idea of one's abilities or status.
Swellfish	n	A plectognath fish that dilates itself, such as a puffer fish.
Swelling	n	The state of being swollen. 2. anything swollen, especially any abnormally or morbidly swollen part of the body.
Swelling	adj	Increasing, bulging.
Swellish	adj	Somewhat swollen.
Swellness	n	The quality of being swollen.
Swelltoad	n	A swell or puffer fish.
Swelly	adj	Tending to swell or bulge.
Swelt	vb	To die, perish, to cause to perish. 2. to be ready to perish with the force of strong emotion or a fit of sickness. 2. to overcome, faint, swoon. 3. to be overcome or overpowered by with heat; to suffer oppressive heat, welt. 4. to burn or rage with fever. 5. to exude with heat. 6. to overheat, to broil, scorch; be overwhelm by heat. 7. "to swelt one's heat: to exert oneself to the utmost".
Swelt	phr	"Swelt One's Heat" - to exert oneself to the utmost.
Swelter	n	A hot, sweltering condition. 2. oppressive, humid heat.
Swelter	vb	To suffer from oppressive heat, perspire from heat. 2. to cause to swelter. 3. to exude.
Sweltering	adj	(Of weather) hot and humid. oppressively and overpoweringly sticky.
Swench	n	Trial, labor, toil.
Swench	vb	To trouble, harass, afflict. 2. to mortify.
Sweng	n	A stroke, blow; also, to various kinds of violent action, i.e. a fall or throw at wrestling; a swing at someone; a military attack or assault. 2. toil, labor, exertion.
Swenge	vb	To shake, shatter, smite, dash, fling. 2. to beat, including eggs. 3. to make a dash more violently; to fling.
Swept Back	adj	(Of an aircraft wing) angled backwards from its attachment to the fuselage. 2. of a hairstyle swept back.
Sweptwing	n	Of an aircraft with sweptback wings.
Swerk	vb	In OE. to become sad, troubled, gloomy. 2. to be or become dark.
Swerve	n	The act of turning aside suddenly; swerve, swerving, veering. 2. an erratic deflection from an intended course; yaw,
Swerve	vb	To stray; to wander; to rope. 2. to go out of a straight line; to deflect. 3. to wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate. 4. to bend; to incline. 5. to climb or move upward by winding or turning. 6. to turn sharply; change direction abruptly; swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut.
Swerve	phr	"Swerve From" - to change one's direction or aim.
Swerveless	adj	Without deviation of swerving from a course.
Swerving	n	An unpredictable change of direction.
Swervingly	adv	In a swerving manner, without deviation, indirectly.
Sweve	vb	To sleep, sink to rest, become quiet. 2. to put to sleep or to death. 3. lull to rest; also to stupefy.
Sweven	n	A dream, vision, sleep, slumber.
Swevener	n	A dreamer.
Swevening	adj	Dreaming.
Swey	n	Noise, din, clamor.
Swey	vb	To make a sound, noise; to resound, move with noise.
Sweying	adj	Noisy, dinny, resounding.
Sweying	n	The action of making noise or a din, etc.
Swie	vb	To become silent.
Swift	adj	Fast; quick; rapid. 2. capable of moving at high speeds.
Swift	n	A small plain-colored bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight. 2. any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus. 3. a moth of the family Hepialidae, swift moth, ghost moth. 4. a reel for winding yarn. 5. the main cylinder of a carding-machine. 6. a cooper's two-handed trimmer for cleaning off irregularities. 7. (obsolete) the current of a stream.
Swiftboat	n	A small, shallow draft water vessel used by US Navy for counter-insurgency operations (firstly during the Vietnam War).
Swiftboat	vb	To put forth sensational negative stories about a political figure as part of a smear campaign, especially regarding their military record.
Swift foot	n	A bird, the courser.
Swift ground spider	n	Nyssus coloripes.
Swift-handed	adj	Characterized by quick, skilful movement of the hands. 2. quick to respond or react.
Swift-handedness	n	The quality of being quick-handed.
Swiftie	n	Someone or something that moves swiftly.
Swiftliness	n	The state or condition of being or acting swiftly.
Swiftly	adv	In a swift manner; quickly; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.
Swiftness	n	The state of beig swift.
Swike	n	Deceit, deception, an act of deception, treachery, a trick. 2. a snare, trap.
Swike	vb	To leave off, cease, to act deceitfully, practise deceit, to deceive, cheat, ensnare. 2. of a thing: to prove false, to disappoint the expectation of, to fail a person 3.to surprise, take unawares. 4. to get dishonestly, sneak.
Swike	adj	Deceitful, treacherous, traitorous, crafty, swikel.
Swikedom	n	A state or condition of deception, cheating, fraud.
Swikel	adj	Deceitful, treacherous, traitorous, crafty.
Swikeful	adj	Deceitful, treacherous,
Swikefully	adv	In a deceitful or treacherous manner.
Swikkely	adv	Deceitfully, treacherously, craftily.
Swikelness	n	Deceitfulness, treachery, trickery.
Swiking	n	The act of deception, deceit, sneakiness.
Swikingly	adv	Treacherously, deceptively, craftily.
Swill	n	A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps. 2. any disgusting or distasteful liquid. 3. anything disgusting or worthless. 4. large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.
Swill	vb	To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess. 2. to wash (something) by flooding with water.3. to move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion. 4. (of a liquid) To move around or over a surface. 5. to inebriate; to fill with drink. 6. to feed swill to (pigs)
Swill	phr	"Swill Out" - claen a container etc by pouring water in andout of it; rinse (out).
Swill-belly	n	A drunkard.
Swiller	n	A person who swills something.
Swilling	n	That swills or drinks greedily. 2. the act or action of drinking excessively.
Swilling	adj	Addicted to excessive drinking. 2. abundant, deep, profound.
Swilling-hole	n	A pool at the bend of a stream. 3. a hollow place. 4. a gutter washed out of the soil.
Swillings	n	Swill, hogwash.
Swillpot	n	A drunkard.
Swilly	adj	Swelly; eddish or whirlpool-like, turbulent.
Swim	n	The clear part of a liquid which floats above the sediment. 2. the part of the river much frequented by fish or in which angler's fish. 3. an act or instance of swimming. 4. the air bladder of a fish. 5. the current of affairs or events, esp. the popular in business, politics, or opinion; chiefly "in the swim"
Swim	vb	To float. 2. to move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. 3. to become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid. 4. to traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to utilize a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event. 5. to cause to swim. 6. to be overflowed or drenched. 7. to immerse in water to make the lighter parts float. 8. to test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches. 9. to undergo a giddy sensation. 10. to immerse in water to make lighter parts float (to swim wheat in order to select seed).
Swim	phr	"In the Swim." - in the same company with; in league with an enterprise, scheme, game. 2. up-to-date; involved with the latest trend. 3. to be member of a group knowing what is going on.
Swim	phr	"Sink or Swim"" - commit to total success or failure.
Swim	phr	"Swim Against the Tide." - to go against prevailing opinion or thought. 2. to oppose conventionally held opinions and beliefs. 3. act , behave in a way that is opposite to most other people.
Swim	phr	"Swim Like a Fish" - be a very strong swimmer.
Swim	phr	"Swim the Thames" - to convert from roman Catholicism to Anglicism.
Swim	phr	"Swim Upstream" - to opt for a different course of action when a simpler or safer alternative is available; to make an unwise decision against sound advice.
Swim	phr	"Swim with the Stream" - to allow one's actions and principles to be guided solely by the force of prevailing public opinion.
Swim-bladder	n	The current of affairs; especially of fashionable life; in the swim.????? 2. a gas-filled sac in fish used to maintain buoyancy.
Swime	n	Dizziness, giddiness, a fit of giddiness; swooning; a swoon.
Swime	adj	Giddy, dizzy, stunning.
Swim fin	n	A flipper, footwear used while swimming for more speed.
Swim-in	n	A peaceful form of protest in which the people enter a swimming pool and refuse to leave.
Swim meet	n	A swimming competition (US term).
Swimmer	n	One who swims. 2 a protuberance on the leg of a horse. 2. a webfooted aquatic bird. 3. a sperm.
Swimmering	n	Giddiness, dizziness, swoonliness.
Swimmer's ear	n	Medical term for otitis externa.
Swimmer's itch	n	A short term immune reaction occurring in the skin of humans infected by a water-borne mite.
Swimming	n	The activity of moving oneself through water using one's arms and legs while buoyed up by the water, carried out by humans for amusement, exercise, sport or entertainment. 2. a giddy sensation.
Swimming-bath	n	A swimming pool, especially a public one.
Swimming bell	n	A bell-shaped part of a jelly fish (and similar organisms) that create by pulsating.
Swimming hole	n	(Australia and New Zealand) An area for swimming in a stream or river. 2. a deep hole in a shallow running stream, used for swimming.
Swimmingly	adv	In an easy, smooth progress; smoothly and without impediment; without uninterrupted success or prosper. 2. conspicuous success without éclat. 3. proceed successfully, well.
Swimmingness	n	A misty or moist appearance (of the eyes). 2. smooth, giddy movement.
Swimming pool	n	An artificail indoor or outdoor pool for swimming.
Swimming-stone	n	A variety of porous quartz which can float for a short time.
Swimminess	n	Dizziness, giddiness. 2. moist of eyes.
Swimmy	adj	Inclined to dizziness or giddiness. 2. graceful, elegant. 3. of the eyes: tearful.
Swim shorts	n	A pair of shorts worn for swimming and bathing.
Swimway	n	A long, narrow walk in which swimming aanimals may be confined in order to study their behavior.
Swimwear	n	Items of clothing appropriate for swimming.
Swind	vb	OE: swindan. to waste away, languish, dwindle, decrease, vanish, disappear.
Swinden	adj	Enfeebled, enervated.
Swindle	n	Vertigo, giddiness.??????/
Swindle	phr	"Swindle Out Of" - get money from somebody by fraud or deceit.?????
Swindling	n	A swimming feeling in the head, a woozy state, giddiness.
Swine	n	Any of various omnivorous, even-toed ungulates of the family Suidae. 2. (derogatory) a contemptible person (plural swines). 3. (slang, derogatory) A police officer; a "pig". 4. (slang, derogatory) something difficult or awkward; a pain.
Swine-backed	n	Having a hogback. 2. conversely curved.
Swine bread	n	The truffle or earthnut.
Swinecote	n	A pigsty.
Swine flesh	n	Pork, flesh or meat of the pig.
Swine grass	Polygonium aviculare, knotgrass
Swineherd	n	A tender of swine or pigs.
Swine-herder	n	A person who looks after pigs.
Swine-herding	n	The herding of swine or pigs.
Swinehood	n	The the state or characteristic of being a swine.
Swinelike	adj	Resembling swine.
Swineling	n	A small, young immature swine or pig.
Swinely	adj	Pertaining to the characteristics of a pig.
Swineman	n	One in charge of or specialising.
Swinestone	n	A type of limestone that emits an unpleasant odour when rubbed or struck; stinkstone.
Swing	n	A stroke with a weapon. 2. impulse, inclination, tendency. 3. freedom of action; free scope; free course; unrestrained liberty.. 3. the manner in which something is swung. 4. line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing. 5. hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing. 6. basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle; a dance style. 7. (music) the genre of music associated with this dance style. 8. the amount of change towards or away from something. 9. (politics) in an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party. 10.(cricket) sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air. 11. the diameter that a lathe can cut. 12. in a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles. 13. capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it. 14. (boxing) a type of hook with the arm more extended.
Swing	vb	To rotate about an off-centre fixed point. 2. to dance. 3. to ride on a swing 4. a sexual context: to participate in swinging lifestyle. 5. to hang on gallows. 6. at cricket, (of a ball), moving sideways in its trajectory. 7. to fluctuate or change. 7. to move an object backward and forward. 8. to change a numerical result. 9. to make something work. 10. music: to produce a bouncy, uneven rhythm. 11. in boxing, to move one's arm in a punching motion. 12. at dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner.
Swing	phr	"Get In the Swing of Things" - adopt an (existing) routine.
Swing	phr	"Go With the Swing" - occur successfully, without difficulty"
Swing	phr	"I Don't Care If I Swing for" - to imply that one party wll murder the other and as a result 'swing' or be hanged for the crime.
Swing	phr	"In Full Swing" - happening vigorously; be very active. 2. going splendidly; everything prosperous and in perfect order.
Swing	phr	"It Went with a Swing" - said of a ceremony , function, entertainment, etc., that passed of without a hitch and was a great success.
Swing	phr	"Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat" - confined, cramped for space; a very small place..
Swing	phr	"Swing and Miss" - (an allusion to cricket, baseball, boxing) a sincere but unsuccesful try or attempt.
Swing	phr	"Swing At" - swing one's fist etc in an attempt to hit someone or something.
Swing	phr	"Swing by"- to pay a brief informal visit.
Swing	phr	"Swing Off" - to steer one's bike to the side in order to allow other riders to overtake.
Swing	phr	"Swing That Way" - to be of a certain sexual preference.
Swing	phr	"Swing the Lead" - to avoid work, especially by pretending to be ill; to shirk; to malinger. 2. try to deceive with false or exaggerated account of something; especially feign illness in order to avoid work, duty etc. 3. to cheat an employer by not working while being paid to do so.
Swing	phr	"Swing Through" - to visit a place for a short time on your way to another place. 2. to visit a person or lace . 3. to visit a person or to be visited by someone; to visit, quickly go around; call on.
Swing bin	n	A rubbish bin with a lid that closed after use. 2. any of various hinged storage receptacles or containers that swing out from a wall, cabinet, etc. 3. a waste bin.
Swing boat	n	A boat-shaped car, or swing, used on fair grounds.
Swing bridge	n	A swing bridge is a movable bridge that has as its primary structural support a vertical locating pin and support ring, usually at or near to its center of gravity, about which the turning span can then pivot horizontally as shown in the animated illustration to the right. Small swing bridges as found over canals may be pivoted only at one end, opening as would a gate, but require substantial underground structure to support the pivot. In its closed position, a swing bridge carrying a road or railway over a river or canal, for example, allows traffic to cross. When a water vessel needs to pass the bridge, road traffic is stopped (usually by traffic signals and barriers), and then motors rotate the bridge horizontally about its pivot point. The typical swing bridge will rotate approximately 90 degrees, or one-quarter turn; however, a bridge which intersects the navigation channel at an oblique angle may be built to rotate only 45 degrees, or one-eighth turn, in order to clear the channel.
Swing dog	n	One of the sled dogs directly behind the lead dog, who helps sets the pace.
Swing door	n	A door that is opened by either pushing or pulling from either side (i.e. opens both ways) and is not normally capable of being locked.
Swinge	n	Sway, power, rule, authority. 2. freedom or action; free scope, licence, liberty to follow one's inclination. 3. impetus, impulse, driving power (of something non-physical as passion, will). 4. a blow, a hard strike
Swinge	vb	To beat, to flog, whip, thrash. 2. to chastise, castigate, to pay out, serve out. 2. to pillory. 3. to bear heavily on. 4. to brandish, flourish, to lash the tail or something with a tail. 5, to cut down with a scythe. 6. to bear sway over. 7. to indulge one's inclination.
Swingeing	n	The action of scourging, flogging, beating; dealing with blows. 2. very large, thumping.
Swingeing	adj	Scourging, flogging, something that swings. 2. with great or large huge, intense.
Swingel	n	A whip, swingle, flail.
Swinger	n	One who acts vigorously and forcibly; a powerful fellow. 2. something forcible or effective. 3. a great or bold lie. 4. a forcible blow or stroke. 5. one who seeks multiple sexual relationships simultaneously. 6. a member of a group of people who agree to exchange on a casual basis 7. a rogue, rascal, scoundrel.
Swing frame	n	The frame of the motorcycle, where the real time is suspended by shock absorbers.
Swinging	n	The act or motion of that which swings. 2. an activity where couples engage in sexual activity with different partners.
Swinging	adj	(informal):fine, good, successful.
Swinging door	n	A door that is opened by either pushing or pulling from either side (i.e. opens both ways) and is not normally capable of being locked.
Swingingly	adv	With a swinging motion. 2. very well or with great success, splendidly.
Swingingness	n	The quality of being swinging in jazz music. 2. activities where couples engage in sexual activity with different partners.
Swinglike	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a swing (in various senses).
Swing loan	n	A bridge loan: a sum of money loan or borrowed for a short period of time in order to cover expenses until new expected funds become available.
Swing-plough	n	A plough without a forewheel under the beam.
Swing saw	n	A pendulum.
Swing shift	n	(US) A work shift between a day shift and a night shift, such as from 4PM to midnight, and the group of workers scheduled to work such a shift at a facility. 2.(US) a system of shifts where each worker alternates between day shifts and night shifts.
Swing-wing	n	An aircraft wing that can move from a right-angled to a swept-back position.
Swingy	adj	Having a swinging motion. 2. Characteristic of swing music. 3. having many swing voters.
Swinishly	adv	In a swinish manner.
Swingle	n	A wooden instrument resembling a sword, used for beating and scraping flax or hemp so as to cleanse it of wooly and coarse particles. 2. a weapon resembling a flail. 3. a kind of cudgel. 4. a clapper of a bell.
Swingling	n	Giddiness, vertigo, dizziness.
Swingy	adj	Characterized by swing. 2. (of a skirt or dress) designed to swing with body movement.
Swinish	adj	Disposition of a swine; hoggish, piggish, sensual, gluttonous, coarse, beastly, degraded in nature.
Swinishly	adv	In a swinish or uncouth manner.
Swinishness	n	State or condition of being swinish: coarse, piggish, gluttonous, beastly.
Swink	n	Trouble, affliction, labor, toil, heavy drinking, intoxicative.
Swink	vb	To labor, toil, work, hard and exertly. 2. to to journey or travel. 3. to gain by labour. 4. to cause to toil. 5. to set to hard work. 6. to overwork, to work overhard. 7. to drink deeply.
Swinked	adj	Wearied by overwork or toil.
Swinker	n	One who swinks, a labourer, worker, toiler.
Swinkful	adj	Full of toil and trouble; disastrous, troublesome. 2. irksome, painful, distressing. 2. hardworking, industrious, diligent.
Swinkfulness	n	Diligence, toil, trouble.
Swinkhood	n	The state of laboring, industry or toiling. 2. the state of being in trouble, distress.
Swinking	adj	That swinks, labours, involving toil, labourous I effort or exertion, toilsome.
Swinkless	adj	Free or devoid of toil, labour, diligence, distress, irk, pain.
Swip	n	See "swaip" - a stroke, blow, a rush, a forcible movement.
Swip	vb	See "swaip." -- to strike, hit, smite. 2. to wield a weapon forcibly, esp. in a downward direction. 3. to dea a blow. 4. to move in haste or violently; make a dash, escape, slip away.
Swiple	n	The swinging part of the flail.
Swipping	n	The act of striking, involving moving quickly.
Swipperly	adj	Craftily, cunningly, quickly, nimbly, actively.
Swire	n	The neck; a neck. 2. hollow near the summit or a mountain or hill. 3. a gentle depressiom between two hills or mountain-tops.
Swire-bone	n	The neck bone.
Swireforth	adv}	Headlong; neck forward.
Swith	adj	Of a rapid rate, very quickly, swiftly. 2. without delay, forthwith; immediately; directly, at once.
Swither	n	The right side or hand; withershins.
Swither	vb	To hesitate, vacillate.
Swithly	adv	Quickly, rapidly, without delay.
Swithness	n	Quickness; swiftness.
Swive	vb	To have sexual intercourse. 2. to copulate. 3. to move in a course sweep.
Swive	n	The act of swiven; copulation.
Swivel	vb	To turn as if a part on a pivot or pin.
Swivel	n	A couple that permits parts to rotate.
Swiveled	adj	Turning as if a part on a pivot or pin.
Swivel-eyed	adj	Having a squint; squinting. 2. (informal): rotating the eyes wildly, especially in a way regarded as indicative of frenzy. 3. holding or expressing political views regarded as extreme or fanatical.
Swivel-hipped	adj	Having an exaggerated swinging motion of the hips when walking.
Swivel-hook	n	A rotating hook used in a wardrobe.
Swiveling	n	The motion of something that swivels.
Swiver	n	One who is given to sexual intercourse or indulgence; a copulator.
Swiving	n	The act or process of copulating; copulation.
Swiweek	n	Holy week.
Swole	n	Sweat, perspiration.
Swollenness	n	The state or condition of being swollen.
Swollen	adj	Distended.
Swollen-headed	adj	Conceited.
Swon	n	A swineherd.
Swoon	n	A faint. 2. an infatuation.
Swoon	vb	To faint.
Swooner	n	One who faints. 2. one who is infatuated.
Swoonily	adv	In a swoony manner.
Swooning	adj	Fainting, syncopative.
Swoonless	adj	Without swooning; not prone to swooning.
Swoony	adj	Tending to swoon or faint.
Swoop	vb	To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive. 2. to move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something. 2. to fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing. 3. to seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep. 4. to pass with pomp; to sweep.
Swoop	n	Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘sweep along in a stately manner’): perhaps a dialect variant of Old English swāpan (see sweep). The early sense of the noun was ‘a blow, stroke’An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward. 2. the quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. 3. a sudden act of seizing. 4. (music) A quick passage from one note to the next.
Swoop	vb	To carry off abruptly. 2. to make a sudden attack. 3. swoop down as a bird in hunting.
Swoop	phr	"At One Fell Swoop" - one stroke, one action or event with many results; simultaneously; all at the same time. 2. in one sudden and disastrous happening.
Swoop	phr	"Swoop Down On" - descend suddenly to seize or attack.
Swooping	n	The motion of something that swoops. 2. having a swooping shape.
Swoopy	adj	Having a swooping motion or shape.
Sword	n	A long-bladed weapon with a hilt, and usually a pommel and cross-guard, which is designed to stab, slash, and/or hack. 2. (tarot) a suit in the minor arcana in tarot. 3. (tarot) a card of this suit. 4. (weaving) one of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended. 5. (heraldry) the weapon, often used as a heraldic charg
Sword	phr	"Be a Two-edged Sword" - to involve both advantages and disadvantages of similar signifance.
Sword	phr	"Fire and Sword" - rapine and destruction perpetrated by an invading army.
Sword	phr	"Hold a Sword at Someone's Throat" - to exert an undue pressure on another person in an endeavour to achieve a result which would otherwise not be forthcoming.
Sword	phr	"Put To the Sword" - to slay wholesale.
Sword	phr	"Sheathe the Sword" - to cease from, warfare.
Sword	n	"Turn Swords to Plowshares" - a concept in which military weapons or technologies are converted for peaceful application.
Sword	phr	Your Tongue is a Two-edged Sword" - whatever you say wounds; your argument cuts both ways.
Sword arm	n	(Fencing - the arm in which one sword is normally held.
Sword-bean	n	Canavalia gladiata, the sword bean or scimitar bean, is a domesticated plant species in the legume family Fabaceae.
Sword-bearer	n	One who bears or carries a sword.
Sword-belt	n	A belt in an attachment for the sword, used to carry it when not in use.
Sword bill	n	A humming bird, with a very long slender bill, exceeding the length of the body of the bird.
Sword-breaker	n	A short sword of dagger, with a deeply notched or ??? bladedesigned to catch or grapple the opponent's weapon.
Sword-brother	n	A comrade in arms.
Swordcraft	n	Knowledge or skill in the use of the sword. 2. management by the sword, military skill, or military power.
Sworded	adj	Having or furnished with a sword.
Sworder	n	Gladiator, swordsman.
Sword-fighter	n	One who fights with a sword in a military competition.
Sword-fighting	n	Dueling with swords; fighting an opponent when both are using swords as a weapons.
Swordfish	n	A large marinfe fish with a sword-like upper jaw.
Sword grass	n	Any of the various grasses with blades that are sharp enough to cut human skin.
Sword hand	n	The hand in which one's sword is normally held.
Sword knot	n	A simple cord attached to the hilt of a sword of a mounted soldier.
Swordless	adj	Without a sword.
Swordlike	adj	Resembling a sword.
Sword lily	n	Gladiolus flowering plant.
Swordmaker	n	A person who makes swords.
Swordmaking	n	The manufacture of swords.
Swordplay	n	Fighting with swords; verbal combat.
Swordsman	n	A person skilled in the use of a sword.
Swordsmanship	n	Skill as a swordsman; skill in using a sword.
Swordsmith	n	A maker of swords.
Swordsmithing	n	The making of swords.
Swordstick	n	A walking stick concealing a sword.
Sword-swallower	n	A performer who performs sword-swallowing.
Sword-swallowing	n	The act of passing a sword through the mouth and down the esophagus to the stomach and then removing it.
Swordtail	n	A very popular aquarium fish, Xiphophorous helleri. 2. the horseshoe crab
Swordwork	n	Combat using a sword; sword play.
Sworn	adj	Given or declared under oath.
Swornbroker	n	(Historicl) a London broker who is sworn before the court of aldermen to maintain honesty in dealing.
Sworn friends	n	Faithful friends.
Swother	vb	To sleep, slumber, nap. 2. swoon, faint.
Swother	n	Slumber, sleep, drowsiness. 2. swodder.
Swough	vb	To sigh, moan, groan. 2. to swoon, droop.
Swow	adj	Fainting, in a swoon, "dead," silent.
Swow	vb	To faint, sleep, be silent.
Swowing	adj	Swooning.
Swike	n	A rivulet, stream, esp. one flowing through marshy ground, and seasonal. 2. a sike.
Swythe	adv	Instantly, speedily, rapidly. (swithe, swiftly)