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Show SW 3. 'To pafs with violence When a circle *bout the wrif Is made by beadle exorcift The body feels the fpur and fwitch Hudibras ihe holds a Jawitch All my precty ones Did you fay all ? Whatall ? O helikite Lay thy bridle's weigh Moft of thy left fide; thy right horfe then fritch Swi'vEL. #. /. Something fixed in anothe body fo as to turn round in it Swo'BBER. 7. /. [See SWABEER. 1. A {weeper of the deck Zo Swor cidentally ufed in betting at the game o whift The clergyman ufed to play at whift and [zwod bers : playing now and then a fober game at whii for paftime, it might be pardoned; but he could no Sawift digeft thofe wicked favobbers o Her dreadful beaft, who, fwo/n with blood of late Came ramping forth with proud prefumptuous gait Spenfer When thus the gather'd ftorms of wretched lov In my faoin bofom with long war had ftrove At length they broke their bounds : at length thei forc Bore down whatever met its ftronger courfe Dryden ‘That he could fwoon when fhe was fick knows that in that grief he reckon' Prior ‘On black-eyed Sufan for his fecond There appeared fuch an ecftacy in his aétion that he feemed ready to favorm away in the furpriz Tatler of joy Swoon. 7 /. [from the verb.] A lipothymy ; a fainting fit 7o Swoor. w. a. [I {fuppofe formed fro the found. 1. To feize by falling at once as a haw upon his prey the fea thers of whofe wings are twelve paces, can with a much eafe fwoop up an elephant as our kites do Wilkins moufe The phyfician looks with another eye on th medicinal herb than the grazing ox, which fawsgp it in with the common grafs Glanvilly's Se What feign'd fubmiffion fwore Sworn~ Old unhappy traitor, the fword is ou He refufed notthe civil offer of a Pharifec, thoug his fzvorn enemy; and woul thofe who fought his ruin The nation all eleéts fome patron-knight Szworn to be true to love, and flave to fame And many a valiant chief enrols his name Granville Preterite and participle paffive o Swum Jwint By fowl Frequent Swunc If what my grandfire to me faid, be true Spenfer's Paflorals Siker I am very f3b to you A Roman fworder and banditto flav Skakefpeare's Henry V1 Murther'd fweet Tully Ceefar wil Unftate his happinefs, and be ftag'd to th' fhe Sy'caMINE. ] 7./. A tree. The fycamor SY'cAMORE. } of Scripture isnot the fam with ours Sycarmore is our acer majus, one of the kinds o Shakefpeare Huf ' ine Mor er gro qui i i maple If ye had faith as a grain of muftard-feed, y ke plu tho B tree min fyc thi unt might fa Swo'RDFISH, 7. /. [xiphias.] A fith wit a long fharp bone iffuing from his head A fzwordfifb fmall him from the.reft did funder Luke; x¥ite O up, and it fhould obey you 1 was no prophet, but an herdman, and a ga That in his throat him pricking fofil}.yunder Malpighi cbferved the middle of the'optick perv of the fzoord-fifb to be a large membrane, folded, Till through their bowels we our paffage wrought Dryder Swo'rRDGRASS, n.[ [gladiolus.] A kin Ainfavorth of fedge; glader Swo'rpkrNOT. #. /i [ /fword and Anot. Riband tied to the hilt of the fword Savung her to earth, and dragg'd her on the ground Addifon ftill retains it Swo'RDER. 7. /. [from fwerd.] A cutthroat ; a foldier. In contempt The combat only feem'd a civil war \SyB. adj. [properly fb, yib, Saxon Related by blood." The Scottifh dialet Miiton Our little fleet was now engag'd fo far That like the frwordfifb in the whale they fought Preterite and participle pafliv Her hand within her hair fhe wound The [aworded feraphi Are feen in glit€ring ranks with wings difplay'd Derbam's Phyfico-Theology Milton's Paradife Loft of fwing a {word according to its length, in many doubles, like 4 fan fifh, beaft, was flown, was favum, wa walk' Girtwit Spenfe(€ Air, water, earth This I, her favord-bearer, do carry Hudibras For civil deed and militarys His wide abyfs him forced forth todpewy eat at the table o Calamy's Sermons To thelter innocence 4. Emblem of authority Againft a fworder The participle paflive of fwear Will keep a league till death Shak. Rickard 11 They that are mad againft me, are fworn againf me Plalms Milton [from fword. Miltow ‘What does elfe want credit, come to me And I°1 be favorn 'tis true Skakefpeare I am fwworn brother, fweet To grim neceflity; and heand She quits the balance, and refigns the fword. Dryd Swo'RDED. adj The preterite of fawear How foon unfa Juftice to merit does weak aid afford Shakcfpeare for what's to come upon thee We fee-the-great and fudden effect of fmells i Bacon fetching men again, whken they fwwoon The moft in years fwoon'd firfk away for pain to catch up SworE 3. Vengeance of juftice Hakeavill on Providence a fwordfight The fzvord without, and terrour within Deut. xxxile 2. If thou ftand'ft not 1> th' ftate of hanging, o of fome death more long in fpetatorfhip, and cru" eller in fuffering, behold now prefently, and fzvso 2. To prey upon ‘U'befe they called [ordplayers, and this fpe@acl z. Deftru&tion by war ; as fire and jaword Shakefpeare Anld now at laft you came to fzwarp it all. Dryden ing prizes eerd Jjw ; SWORD. #. /. [rpeond, Sa Dutch. 1. A weapon ufed either in. cutting o thrufting ; the ufual weapon of fight hand to hand Pals'd through him #. /i [ /word and play. Gladiator ; fencer ; qne who exhibits i publick his fkill at the weapons by fight Defcending, and in half cut fheer; nor ftay'd But with fwift wheel reverfe, deep ent'ting fhar' All his right fide: then Satan firft knew pain And writh'd him to and fro convolv'd 5 fo for The griding faord with difcontinuous woun tion; to faint Thismould'ring piecemeal in yourhandsdid fall Oh that infulting word ! I would h;w‘cfivc;p‘ Youth for old age, and all my life behind To have been then a momentary man Dryden's Cleomenes Nor folid might refift that edge : it me The fzvord of Satan with fteep force to {mit Swom. The preterite of fwirm Jo SwooN. @.z [aypunan, Saxon.] T {uffer a fufpenfion of thought and fenfa A fowl in Madagafcar, called a ruck SWO'RDPLAYER Was giv'n him temper'd fo, that neither kee Prior Whereas at firft we had only three of thefe principles, their number is already fzvoln to five Baker on Learning An Effex was made lieutenant-general of the arm the darling of the fawordmen C/m'efldon: But the fwor Of Michael from the armoury of Go Laid all the civil bonds of manhood. watte And fcatter'd ruin as the torrent paft Then, fcarce recover'd, fpoke The woman finds it all a trick Ben Fonfon, | That muft deftroy thee. Shakefpeare's King LearEach man took his Jzword, and flew all the males Genefis Unto his aid fhe haftily did dra By which he fhould revive w. a. [Of uncertain derivation. And cried, as in derifion, fpare the fripling that are only in So play the foolifh throngs with one that fzvoon Come all to help him, and fo ftop the ai Worthy fellows, and like to prove moft finew [wordmen Shakejpeare's All's aell that ends wejl At becea's houfe Among your [wordmen, where fo many affociate Both of thy mifchief and thy madnefs met When I drove a thruft home, he put it by On a brown george with loufy fewobbers fed. Diyd The participle pafliv Jwell qu'g DMAN. 7. /. [frwordandman.] Soldier ; fighting man all To change; to exchange one thing fo A low word another Cubb'd in a cabbin, on a mattrefs laid and oppreflion, and fword/aw Milton away a whole litter of cubs ata fzwosp. L'Efi{'aflgc Chapman's Hiad Through all the plain, and refuge none was found Shakefpeare's Macbeth At one fell fzvogp The eagle fell into the fox's quarters, and carrie Spent 1n encouragements give him ; and all the rei Swo'LrLEN. SwoLn Proceeded What, all my pretty chickens and their dam ing, all thy throa 2. Four privileged card So violenc Fall of Swoor. 7. /. [from the verb. bird of prey upon his quarry T #./. Violence ; the la which all 1s yielded to the ftronger in tr t lu c f t w o a o w f m T o P Drayton As fits fo brave a flood let float Swo'rpLaw tertain Addifon 7o Switcu. v. a. [from the noun. Wigswithwigs, fwordknots with feuerdimots ftrive Beaus banith beaus, and coaches coachesdrive, Pogy, Not ufed The nine-fton'd trophy thus whilft fie doth en _Mauritania, on the fifth medal, leads a hori with fomething like a thread; in her other han lath ; to jerk SY SW therer of L\'camcrs fruit ‘Go to yonder [ycamore-tree, and hid Amosy Vi '-"! your bottl #af g7of drink under its hollow root a fpr wer nti egl wit e lyo Syc head ove rin cov fide th gbo Ke A Dlyde'fl | SYCOPE YR [o'vmq"-f,"f.'rmg;/]w fe';_:y A talebA1earer ; a mast phanta bate ; a malxcrous paraite Accufing fycophants, of all men {id beft fort t ' " b f y j i s f n o e e t b his nature flal) i b u c e t i f e t i e becaufe of n ne or doubtfu thing unt him ready-he had been apttodetexmin but fuch, 4Sam fo as they¢ b |