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to swallow with difficulty or to swallow quickly and forcibly
Swallow the anchor is old British slang for to surrender oneself to the police.
a stick about two feet long and half an inch in diameter kept at hand when fishing, to remove the hook from the its hold when swallowed by the fish
To swallow drugs
a hollow or cut; depression in a road or cliff; to swallow greedily
Swallow Bobby is Australian slang for make a false customs declaration or affidavit.
To swallow.
Sailors traditionally received swallow tattoos before they went out to sea, because swallows always come home. Nowadays, one swallow, or a sparrow, means you've sailed 5,000 miles, and two means 10,000 miles. Also, two swallows, one on each hand means "these fists fly" ie. the sailor likes to fight. Swallows on the chest are meant to lift the soul to heaven if the sailor perishes.
Swallow was slang for a female KGB agent who seduced men for purposes of espionage. Swallow isBritish slang for an alcoholic drink.Swallow is British slang for taking an illicit pill.Swallow is British slang for to accept a story without question.Swallow is British slang for to back down from an argument.
To swallow food without chewing
swallowing tablets or capsules
Swallow and sigh is London Cockney rhyming slang for a collar and tie.
An individual used as a drug courier
Retire from the Navy.
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v. t.
To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.
n.
A common, large, handsome, American swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of Papilio, / Jasoniades, glaucus. The wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange-red spot near the posterior angle of the hind wings. Called also tiger swallowtail. See Illust. under Swallowtail.
n.
A poisonous plant (Vincetoxicum officinale) of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort.
v. t.
To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions.
a.
Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool.
n.
Capacity for swallowing; voracity.
n.
One who swallows; also, a glutton.
n.
The act of swallowing.
v. i.
To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow.
n.
A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their presence in the muscles and the intestines in large numbers produces trichinosis.
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Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.
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Having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow-tailed coat.
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A glucoside extracted from the root of the white swallowwort (Vincetoxicum officinale, a plant of the Asclepias family) as a bitter yellow amorphous substance; -- called also asclepiadin, and cynanchin.
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As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water.
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A swallow-tailed coat.
n.
The esculent swallow. See under Esculent.
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n.
The act of twittering; a small, tremulous, intermitted noise, as that made by a swallow.
v. t.
To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink.
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