Definition of swallow

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Swallow (v. t.) To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions..

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Latirostres :: Latirostres (n. pl.) The broad-billed singing birds, such as the swallows, and their allies..
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..
Gormandize :: Gormandize (v. i. & t.) To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton.
Twitter :: Twitter (n.) The act of twittering; a small, tremulous, intermitted noise, as that made by a swallow..
Bird''s-nest :: Bird's-nest (n.) The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups..
Progne :: Progne (n.) A swallow.
Sea Swallow :: Sea swallow () The common tern.
Gulf :: Gulf (n.) That which swallows; the gullet.
Ruminate :: Ruminate (v. i.) To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed.
Take :: Take (v. t.) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine..
Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.
Resorb :: Resorb (v. t.) To swallow up.
Introsume :: Introsume (v. t.) To draw in; to swallow.
Drink :: Drink (v. t.) To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water..
Eat :: Eat (v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread..
Absorbable :: Absorbable (a.) Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.
Progne :: Progne (n.) A genus of swallows including the purple martin. See Martin.
Drink :: Drink (v. i.) To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring..
Wind-sucking :: Wind-sucking (n.) A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air; -- usually associated with crib-biting, or cribbing. See Cribbing, 4..
Chelidonius :: Chelidonius (n.) A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.
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