a former state in Northwest India, now a part of Pakistan. It was ruled by a prince called a Wali.

a special group of police trained to deal with unusually dangerous or violent situations, and having special weapons, such as rifles more powerful than those carried by regular police officers. They are employed, for example, in situations when hostages are being held, or heavily armed persons need to be captured. Called also SWAT or S.W.A.T..

A swath.

imp. of Sweat.

A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.

A bandage; a band; a swath.

A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.

imp. of Sweat.

The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon.

Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; -- said of horses and other animals.

The horizontal bracing of a bridge, which prevents its swaying.

Bent down, and hollow in the back; sway-backed; -- said of a horse.

Able to sway.

An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses.

To singe; to scorch; to swale; as, to sweal a pig by singeing off the hair.

To utter or affirm with a solemn appeal to God for the truth of the declaration; to make (a promise, threat, or resolve) under oath.

One who swears; one who calls God to witness for the truth of his declaration.

a. n. from Swear, v.

The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration.

One who sweats.

In a sweaty manner.

Quality or state of being sweaty.

a. n. from Sweat, v.

Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment.

A native or inhabitant of Sweden.

Of or pertaining to Swedenborg or his views.

The doctrines of the Swedenborgians.

The language of Swedes.

An atrophy of the muscles of the shoulder in horses; also, atrophy of any muscle in horses.

The act of sweeping.

A bow-saw.

The crop of hay got in a meadow.

One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.

Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation.

Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.

A winning of all the stakes or prizes.

A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.

One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used.

Moving with a sweeping motion.

To sweeten.

Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6.

Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant.

A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See under Custard.

Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck sweetbread or throat sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.

A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.

To become sweet.

One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.

The act of making sweet.

A lover of mistress.

Making love.

A sweet apple.

Somewhat sweet.

In a sweet manner.

Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.

The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.

Licorice.

A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; -- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.

A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.

The true laurel (Laurus nobilis.) The timber of the tree Oreodaphne Leucoxylon, growing in Jamaica. The name is also applied to the timber of several other related trees.

Any plant of a sweet taste.

See Swainmote.

Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood.

People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.

Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.

The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride.

Dandified; stylish.

A swellfish.

To overpower, as with heat; to cause to faint; to swelter.

To oppress with heat.

Suffocating with heat; oppressively hot; sultry.

To swallow.

imp. p. p. of Sweep.

Sword.

To turn aside.

A vision seen in sleep; a dream.

Such.

A genus of meliaceous trees consisting of one species (Sweitenia Mahogoni), the mahogany tree.

The current of a stream.

To tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer.

The courser.

Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.

In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.

The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.

To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off.

The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings.

One who swills.

See Swill, n., 1.

To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims.

A moaning or sighing sound or noise; a sough.

One who swims.

One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.

Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head.

In an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously.

Act or state of swimming; suffusion.

See Swink.

The act or process of swindling; a cheat.

One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.

Swindling; rougery.

Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog.

A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox.

The truffle.

A hogsty.

A hogsty.

A hogsty.

The wolf fish.

A keeper of swine.

The European redwing.

Same as Piggery.

See Stinkstone.

A sty, or pen, for swine.

The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.

The European swift.

The sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing.

A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer.

Huge; very large.

The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.

One who swinges.

A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand.

A swingletree.

The thrasher, or fox shark. See Thrasher.