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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: swank - swarthy</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="swank"> swank (1), adjective, verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. (Slang.) stylish; smart; dashing. <DD> 2. (Scottish.) agile; active; nimble. <DD>v.i. (Slang.) to show off; bluff; swagger. <DD>noun (Slang.) 1. ostentatious or pretentious behavior or talk; showing off. Ex. I do not mind his money, but I do not like his swank (G. K. Chesterton). <DD> 2. style; smartness; dash. </DL> <A NAME="swank"> swank (2), verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) a past tense of swink. </DL> <A NAME="swankily"> swankily, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) in a swanky manner. </DL> <A NAME="swankiness"> swankiness, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) the state or quality of being swanky. </DL> <A NAME="swanky"> swanky, adjective, swankier, swankiest, noun, pl. swankies.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. (Slang.) <DD> a. stylish; smart; dashing. <DD> b. swaggering. <DD> 2. (Scottish.) swank. <DD>noun (Scottish.) a smart, active, strapping young fellow. </DL> <A NAME="swanmaiden"> swan maiden,<DL COMPACT><DD> a fabulous creature able to appear in the guise of either a young maiden or swan by taking off or putting on a magic garment of swan's feathers, or by invoking the power of a magic ring or golden chain, versions of which are encountered in Teutonic and Asian folklore and myth. </DL> <A NAME="swanmark"> swan-mark, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) the official mark cut on the beak of a swan in swan-upping. </DL> <A NAME="swanneck"> swanneck, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a neck like that of a swan, as in length, slenderness, or whiteness. <DD> 2. something shaped like or suggesting the neck of a swan, as a curved section of a pipe. </DL> <A NAME="swannecked"> swan-necked, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. having a neck like that of a swan, as in length, whiteness, or slenderness. <DD> 2. shaped or curved like the neck of a swan. </DL> <A NAME="swannery"> swannery, noun, pl. -neries.<DL COMPACT><DD> a place where swans are kept and reared. </DL> <A NAME="swanscombeman"> Swanscombe man,<DL COMPACT><DD> an early type of pre-Neanderthal man similar to Homo sapiens, identified from skull bones found at Swanscombe, England. </DL> <A NAME="swansdown"> swan's-down, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the soft down of a swan, used for dress trimmings, powder puffs, and the like. <DD> 2. Also, swansdown. <DD> a. a fine, thick, soft cloth, usually made from wool, used especially for babies' coats and bathrobes. <DD> b. =cotton flannel. </DL> <A NAME="swanshift"> swan shift,<DL COMPACT><DD> a garment made of swan's feathers which the swan maiden put on to assume her guise as a swan. </DL> <A NAME="swanskin"> swanskin, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. the skin of a swan, with the feathers on. <DD> 2. any one of various soft fabrics, as cotton flannel. <DD>adj. made or consisting of swanskin. </DL> <A NAME="swansong"> swan song,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the song which, according to fable, a swan sings as it is about to die. It is melancholy but surpassingly beautiful. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) a person's last piece of work, farewell performance, or final statement, especially a last work of literature, music, or art. </DL> <A NAME="swanupper"> swan-upper, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) an official who takes up and marks swans. </DL> <A NAME="swanupping"> swan-upping, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) <DD> 1. the act or practice of taking up swans and marking them with nicks on the beak in token of being owned by the Crown or somebody chartered by the Crown. <DD> 2. the annual expedition to do this on the Thames, carried out under the aegis of the sovereign. </DL> <A NAME="swap"> swap, verb, swapped, swapping, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD>v.t., v.i. to exchange, barter, or trade. Ex. old friends swapping stories. We decided to swap my radio for his camera. <DD>noun 1. an exchange, barter, or trade. Ex. Getting that new camera for my old radio was the best swap I've ever made. <DD> 2. =swap fund. Also, swop. </DL> <A NAME="swapfund"> swap fund,<DL COMPACT><DD> a mutual fund that accepts blocks of common stock from investors in exchange for shares in the fund. Ex. Swap funds differ from most mutual funds in that the amount of shares they issue is limited to the value of the securities accepted in establishing the fund (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="swapline"> swap line,<DL COMPACT><DD> a reciprocal credit arrangement between banks of different countries. Ex. the Bank of England's swap line with the Federal Reserve. </DL> <A NAME="swapmeet"> swap meet,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a bazaar or market where articles are bartered or traded. </DL> <A NAME="swapo"> SWAPO or Swapo, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> South-West Africa People's Organization, a black independence organization in Namibia and South Africa. Ex. Swapo is a hard body to categorize. It has an external wing devoted to the armed struggle ... It has an internal wing devoted to quasi-political methods. ... It runs the gamut from terrorists who attack peaceful targets in Ovamboland to clergy (Manchester Guardian Weekly). </DL> <A NAME="swapper"> swapper, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD> 1. a person who swaps. <DD> 2. (Especially British.) something very big; whopper. </DL> <A NAME="swaraj"> swaraj, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun political autonomy for India; establishment of India as a self-governing political unit. <DD>adj. of or having to do with swaraj. </DL> <A NAME="swaraj"> Swaraj, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the party in India primarily devoted to swaraj during the latter period of British domination. </DL> <A NAME="swarajism"> swarajism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the swaraj principle or movement. </DL> <A NAME="swarajist"> swarajist, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun an advocate of swaraj; a member of the Swaraj party. <DD>adj. of or having to do with swaraj. </DL> <A NAME="sward"> sward, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a grassy surface; turf. <DD>v.i. to form a sward; become covered with grassy turf. <DD>v.t. to cover with a sward (chiefly in the passive). </DL> <A NAME="sware"> sware, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) swore; a past tense of swear. </DL> <A NAME="swarf"> swarf, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the greasy grit that collects on a knife as it is sharpened on a stone, or on an axle as it revolves in a bearing. <DD> 2. filings or shavings that come as from a drilled hole. </DL> <A NAME="swarm"> swarm (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a large group of honeybees, led by a queen, that leave a hive and fly off together to start a new colony. <DD> 2. a group of honeybees settled together in a hive. <DD> 3. a large group of insects flying or moving about together. <DD> 4. (Figurative.) a great number or multitude, especially one moving about together; crowd; throng. Ex. Swarms of children were playing in the park. <DD> 5. (Biology.) a cluster of free-swimming or free-floating cells or one-celled organisms, such as zoospores, moving in company. <DD>v.i. 1. to fly off together to start a new colony. Ex. The bees swarmed on a sunny June day. <DD> 2. to fly or move about in great numbers. Ex. The flies swarmed about us. <DD> 3. (Figurative.) to be in very great numbers; come together in a dense crowd; collect, assemble, or congregate thickly and confusedly; crowd; throng. <DD> 4. to be crowded (with); contain great numbers; abound; teem. Ex. The swamp swarms with mosquitoes. <DD> 5. (Biology.) to escape from the parent organism in a swarm, with characteristic movement. <DD>v.t. to fill or beset with, or as if with, a swarm; throng. Ex. Mosquitoes swarmed the open tent. expr. swarm off, to leave a hive or colony to start another or others. Ex. The number of monks increased so rapidly that they were soon obliged to swarm off, like bees, into new monasteries of the same Order (Joseph T. Fowler). </DL> <A NAME="swarm"> swarm (2), intransitive verb, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to climb; shin. Ex. to swarm up a tree. </DL> <A NAME="swarmcell"> swarm cell, =swarm spore.</DL> <A NAME="swarmer"> swarmer, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. one of a number that swarm; one of a swarm, as of insects. <DD> 2. (Biology.) swarm spore. </DL> <A NAME="swarmspore"> swarm spore,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Biology.) any tiny motile spore produced in great abundance; zoospore. </DL> <A NAME="swart"> swart, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> dark in color; dusky; swarthy. noun swartness. </DL> <A NAME="swarth"> swarth (1), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) swarthy. </DL> <A NAME="swarth"> swarth (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Dialect.) turf; sward. </DL> <A NAME="swarth"> swarth (3), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Dialect.) swath. </DL> <A NAME="swarthily"> swarthily, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> with a swarthy hue. </DL> <A NAME="swarthiness"> swarthiness, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the condition of being swarthy; dusky or dark complexion; tawniness. Ex. The swarthiness of the fisherman's skin bespoke his days in the sun. </DL> <A NAME="swarthy"> swarthy, adjective, swarthier, swarthiest.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a dark skin; dark in color; dusky (used especially of the skin or complexion, or of persons in respect to these). Ex. The sailor was swarthy from the sun of the tropics. </DL> <A HREF="swash.dic">NEXT</A>