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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>SWANUPPI</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="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 NAME="swash"> swash (1), verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. 1. to dash (water or other liquid) about; splash. <DD> 2. to dash water or other liquid upon; souse. <DD>v.i. 1. to dash with a splashing sound; splash (about, against). <DD> 2. =swagger. <DD>noun 1. a swashing action or sound. Ex. the swash of waves against a boat. <DD> 2. a swagger; swashbuckling. <DD> 3. a channel of water through or behind a sandbank. <DD> 4. ground under water or over which water washes. </DL> <A NAME="swash"> swash (2), adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Printing.) <DD>adj. having or characterized by ornamental strokesor flourishes. Ex. swash capitals, swash italics. <DD> See also swash letters. <DD>noun an ornamental stroke or flourish on a letter or font. </DL> <A NAME="swashbuckle"> swashbuckle, verb, -led, -ling, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.i. to swagger in a noisy, blustering, or boasting manner. Ex. [He] sings and swashbuckles in eighteenth-century costume (Newsweek). <DD>v.t. to make by swashbuckling. Ex. ... dashing soldiers of fortune who swashbuckled their way to legend (Wall Street Journal). <DD>noun the act of swashbuckling. </DL> <A NAME="swashbuckler"> swashbuckler, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a swaggering swordsman, bully, or boaster. Ex. He had a garrison after his own heart ... guzzling, deep-drinking swashbucklers (Washington Irving). </DL> <A NAME="swashbucklering"> swashbucklering, noun, adjective. =swashbuckling.</DL> <A NAME="swashbuckling"> swashbuckling, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> swaggering; bullying; boasting. Ex. political swashbuckling (n.), a swashbuckling swordsman (adj.). </DL> <A NAME="swasher"> swasher, noun. =swashbuckler.</DL> <A NAME="swashing"> swashing, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. (of water or other liquid) dashing and splashing. <DD> 2. swaggering; swashbuckling. Ex. We'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have (Shakespeare). <DD>noun 1. a dashing or splashing action of water. Ex. A rising tide creates ... swashings and swirlings and a continuous slapping against the rocky rim of the land (New Yorker). <DD> 2. (Archaic.) swaggering; ostentatious behavior. </DL> <A NAME="swashletters"> swash letters,<DL COMPACT><DD> letters, especially italic capital letters, of a style characterized by ornamental strokes or flourishes on the top or bottom. </DL> <A NAME="swashplate"> swashplate, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a rotating circular plate inclined to the plane of its revolution, which gives and receives reciprocal motion to and from other parts of the mechanism. Ex. A swashplate or like system links the pistons to a central shaft (New Scientist). </DL> <A NAME="swashy"> swashy, adjective, swashier, swashiest.<DL COMPACT><DD> soft and watery; splashy. Ex. Bulldozers cleared the course in fine style for the reopening last Friday, but ... the footing was still a little swashy (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="swastika"> swastika or swastica, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. an ancient symbol or ornament like a cross with each arm bent in the same way to form a right angle; fylfot. Swastikas were thought in early times to bring good luck. <DD> 2. such a figure with arms turning clockwise, used as the official emblem of the Nazi Party and Nazi Germany. </DL> <A NAME="swat"> swat (1), verb, swatted, swatting, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD>v.t. to hit sharply or violently. Ex. to swat a fly, to swat a home run. <DD>noun a sharp or violent blow. Also, swot. </DL> <A HREF="swatch.dic">NEXT</A>