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Show S Moxon the work o l p I . r v th r [ / # H a S Dié water flowing with violence T» SWASH. @. n. To make a great clatter or noife: whence fwafbbackler. No in ufe r villanies o We'll have-a fwafbing and a martial outfide As many other mannifh cowards have That do outface it with their femblances Jraw, if you be men Shakefpeare's Romeo and Fulict Jwafbing blow Dryd:n's Zneid 3. To be crowded ; to be over-run thronged w O b a f r [ / 7 E to be | Swa's males a {how of valour or force of arms Obfolete Sifn.;&r wer region [twarms with all fort of fowl fith, and her feas with whole thoals Howel ith fables, and from fuc > the worl grounds took hints for fitions DICTN ever after ills, the boldeft ar Life fearms w I have obferved thefe three fzafbers ; three fuc anticks do not amount to a man. Shak. Henry V One fpreadeth thofe bands fo in order to lie Tuffer As barlie in fzvatches may fill it thereby SwaTH. 7. /. [ fwade, Dutch. 1. A line of grafs cut down by the mower ety for a tender maid Bedropp'd wit §. It is ufed in converfation for climbin a tree, by embracing it with the arm and legs adj. [ fwarts, Goth. ypeant SWART SWARTH. } Saxon 5 jwart, Dutch. 1. Black ; darkly brown; tawny z. A continfied quantity An affe@ion'd afs, that cons ftate without book and utters it by great favaths. Shak. Twelfth Night 3. [ypedan, to bind, Saxon. ¢'s Henry V1 mine goblin, or fwart fa iry o Milton. hurtful power o'er true virginity N Hat 2. In Milton it {feem malignant o h A 7o SWATHE. @. a. [ypedan, Saxon. H years old I' th' faathing cloaths the other, from their nurfer T Abbot's ])r.‘/:‘l'f/;."."'w of the World Sawath'd in her lap the bold nurfe bore him out Brown's Vi lgar Errours Swa'RTHILY adv [fro _/m'zz/'//J_y. Blackly ; dufkily ; tawnily SW;‘.'R‘THI.I\'Z.SS. z /- [from fawarthy. Darknefs of complexion tawninefs Swa'RTHY. ad;. [See SwartT.] Dark o complexion; black; dufky; tawny pathlefs plain Rofcommon. cans con plain id climates the common coyet the nacaral colour o sarthy e, on fo P climates i mor Shakefpeare's Cymbeline Their children are never fwathed, or bound abou with any thing, when they are firft born; but ar put naked into the bed with their parents to lie e ven black a dead or diflo the eldeft of them at thre two fons ha Were {tol'n the noun. tranfparen T as a child with bands and rollers bind The heat of the fun may fwart a living part o a fiick whereof is cut int comb Long pieces of linen they folded about me, til they had wrapped me in above an hundred yards o Guardian Jwathe to fignify gloomy Zo SwarT. v. a. [fro blacken; to dufk India fharp and round teeth four inches long: th thre other part is left for the handle, adorned with fin ftraws laid aleng the fides, and lapped round abou Greu it in feveral diftin& fzvaths Ye valleys low whofe frefh lap the fwwart ftar fpa C Aband fillet \\'[4';. 5/» DMortizzer through it And courage fierce, that all men did affray Through the wo:ld then fwarm'd in every par A ma Of favarth complexion, and of crabbed hue Spenfer That him 1ull of melancholy did whew before Whereas I was black an With thofe clear rays which fhe i us'd on me /ou fee That beauty am I bleft with, wh ripe for his cdge in the fwath, neither air nor fun can pafs frecl faart with vifag Greeks Fall down before him, like the mower's fwath Shakefpeare As foon as your grafs is mown, if it lie thic ,! A nation firange ftraw Th With olive branches cover'd round about. Dry¢ EN Mafter's feet are fwvath'd no longer If in the night too oft he kicks Or fhews his loco-motive tricks Prior Sway @. a [ fechweben German, t move. 1. To wave in the hand'; to move o 3 wield any thing maffy : as, to javgy th {cepter Gla fire out of the iron play'd As fparkles from the anvil rife When heavy hammers on the wedge are favay'd Spenfer |-z ¥ Tobiafss2 ; to direé to either fide Beav' f iv them, that {o much have favay' nt, by looking down on Czfar Shak darken all our plains r of the war h more grim Addifon A figure SwasH. n. [. [A cant word. e nce is not round, bu 1fer whofe circumfe oval; and whofe moldings lic not a Af L‘ wls ru tru b prov ou t t none: non bein mad '1.*.‘, (]\V" purpofe falfe, and to be frway'd Hudibras When examining thefe matters, let not temporal :'.}:d little advantages fway you again@t mor durable intereft Tillotfon O The lady's mad: yet if *twere fo She could not fwway her houfe, command her fol. lowers L With fuch a fmooth, difcreet, and ftable bearin o e The v.r:ll of ma Shakefpears' is by his r(afonfrwa]*d{ And reafon fays, you are the worthier maid On Europe thence, and where Rome was 10 fava 4 s The world Milton's ParadicL,:} A gentle nymph, not far from hence " g That with moift curb favays the fmooth Severy" " ftream Sabrina is her name Milto Take heed left paflion fzva Thy jud sment to do aught, which elfe freewill # out Woul n admit Milton's Paradife L Th ment is fwayed by paffion, and' fore® wit lubricou opinions inftea L of clearly co ceived truths This was the rac GClagol™", 3 To _fway the world, and land and fea fubdue With thefe I went With tofling and raking, and fetting on cox Grafle, lately in fxvathes, is meat for an ox. Tuffir To breed multitudes 4 Not in ufe A fwathe SwarcH. z / influence S}Jdkfifi)(afg Shak Gregory, remember th In crowds around the fruarmizg people join Wh right angles, but oblique to the axis of | 3. To govern; to rule ; to overpower; Macdonel The mercilef SW 5§ W Dy Nor idle ftood with unaflifting hands When favage beafts, and men's more favage ban Their virtuous toil fubdu'd; yet thofe I favay' With pow'rful fpeech: I fpoke, and they obey'ds .imi Dryde™ "\ They will do their beft to perfuade the wor that no man aéts upon principle, thatall js fawaye b particular malice To SwaY Davenant™™" " ©. 7 1. To hang heavy; to be drawnby weight. . . .. In thefe perfonal refpeéts, the balance fvays o our part Bacota,p4: by De 2. T'o have weight ; to have.influence . The example of fundry churches, for approba.; . i tion of one thing, doth jevay much; but yet fil. as having the force of an example only, and not a law Hooker™ 3. To bear rule ; to govern The mind I fzvay by, and the heart I bear =it k dicpa Shall never fagg with doubt, nor fhake with fea Shakefpeard Hadft thou faway'd as kings fhould do They never then had fprung like fummer flies Shakefpear. Aged tyranny fways not as it hath power, butz™ it is fuffered Shakepeare's King Lea Here thou fhalt monarch reign There didft not: there let him &ill vicor fway Milter Sway. z./. [from the verb. 1. The fwing or {weep of a weapon To firike with huge two-handed fzvay. Miltar 2. Any thing moving with bulk and powe Are not you mov'd, when all the fway of eart &4 1 i Shakes like a thing unfirm ? Shak. Fulius Cafar 3. Weight ; preponderation; caft of thty S balance Exper == When to advance, or ftand, or turn the fwa Miltar* ey Of battle k 4. Power ; rule ; dominion This fort had fome fear that the filling up feats in the confiftory with fo great pumber of 13y R men, was but to pleafe the minds of the people, t‘_\‘ fom Jwa ow thei thin migh the en th Hooke what Only retai g The name and all th' addition to a kin The [avay, revenue, execution of th' heft Skeke[peare's King Lea Beloved fons, be yours Her father counts it dangerou fwa mu f o for he giv l fho fh Tha An in his wifdom haftes our marriage To ftop the inundation of her tear ‘dekffft'fl""' Too truly Tamerlane's fucceflors they Each thinks a world too little for his fwway ; The poft of honour is a private ftation. Add Dryden's Aureng When vice prevails, and impious men bear ‘E‘;‘;{ 5. Influence |