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- Swing - v. i. - To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
- Swing - v. i. - To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open.
- Swing - v. i. - To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See Swing, n., 3.
- Swing - n. - To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.
- Swing - n. - To be hanged.
- Swing - v. t. - To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.
- Swing - v. t. - To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business.
- Swing - v. t. - To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.
- Swing - n. - The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.
- Swing - n. - Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.
- Swing - n. - A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise.
- Swing - n. - Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.
- Swing - n. - Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- Swing - n. - Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.
- Swingdevil - n. - The European swift.
- Swinge - v. & n. - See Singe.
- Swinge - v. t. - To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish.
- Swinge - v. t. - To move as a lash; to lash.
- Swinge - n. - The sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing.
- Swinge - n. - Power; sway; influence.
- Swingebuckler - n. - A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer.
- Swinged - imp. & p. p. - of Swinge
- Swingeing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Swinge
- Swingeing - a. - Huge; very large.
- Swingel - n. - The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.
- Davit - n. - Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, rig it out for lowering, etc.; -- called also boat davits.
- Swing - v. t. - To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.
- Sway - v. i. - To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.
- Lathe - n. - The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten.
- Swing - v. t. - To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.
- Swing - n. - The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.
- Flail - n. - An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.
- Swivel - v. i. - To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.
- Sway - n. - The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon.
- Outboard - a. & adv. - Beyond or outside of the lines of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; in a direction from the hull or from the keel; -- opposed to inboard; as, outboard rigging; swing the davits outboard.
- Moulinet - n. - In sword and saber exercises, a circular swing of the weapon.
- Swingle - v. i. - To swing for pleasure.
- Weigh - v. t. - To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor.
- Swing - v. t. - To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business.
- Pendulate - v. i. - To swing as a pendulum.
- Slam - v. i. - To come or swing against something, or to shut, with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise; as, a door or shutter slams.
- Pendulum - n. - A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.
- Switch - v. t. - To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.
- Flourish - v. t. - To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
- Sway - v. i. - To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion.
- Upsway - v. t. - To sway or swing aloft; as, to upsway a club.
- Tail - v. i. - To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
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- H1817 דֶּלֶת - 1817 דֶּלֶת - דֶּלֶת - - deleth - deh'-leth - from דָּלָה; something swinging, i.e. the valve of adoor; door (two-leaved), gate, leaf, lid. (Psalm 141:3). - Noun Feminine - heb
- G1621 ἐκτινάσσω - 1621 ἐκτινάσσω - ἘΚΤΙΝΆΣΣΩ - - ektinássō - ek-tin-as'-so - from ἐκ and tinasso (to swing); to shake violently:--shake (off). - Verb - greek