Definition of swallow

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Swallow (v. t.) To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.

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Swallowing :: Swallowed (imp. & p. p.) of Swallo.
Gobble :: Gobble (v. t.) To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
Musang :: Musang (n.) A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also coffee rat..
Merge :: Merge (v. t.) To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.
Eat :: Eat (v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread..
Swallow :: Swallow (v. i.) To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow..
Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink..
Martin :: Martin (n.) One of several species of swallows, usually having the tail less deeply forked than the tail of the common swallows..
Sea Swallow :: Sea swallow () The storm petrel.
Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food..
Swallow :: Swallow (n.) Capacity for swallowing; voracity.
Engulf :: Engulf (v. t.) To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.
Deglutition :: Deglutition (n.) The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.
Swallow :: Swallow (n.) Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift..
Burgee :: Burgee (n.) A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels..
Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions..
Swallowwort :: Swallowwort (n.) See Celandine.
Trichina :: Trichina (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
Rhachiodont :: Rhachiodont (a.) Having gular teeth formed by a peculiar modification of the inferior spines of some of the vertebrae, as certain South African snakes (Dasypeltis) which swallow birds' eggs and use these gular teeth to crush them..
Swallow :: Swallow (n.) Taste; relish; inclination; liking.
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