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Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) A swallow-tailed coat.

Celandine :: Celandine (n.) A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort..

Gobbet :: Gobbet (v. t.) To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.

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..

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..

Salagane :: Salagane (n.) The esculent swallow. See under Esculent.

Gurge :: Gurge (v. t.) To swallow up.

Swallow-tailed :: Swallowtail (n.) Any one of numerous species of large and handsome butterflies, belonging to Papilio and allied genera, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe..

Swam :: Swallowwort (n.) A poisonous plant (Vincetoxicum officinale) of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort..

Deglutition :: Deglutition (n.) The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.

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..

Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also priestcap..

Witchuck :: Witchuck (n.) The sand martin, or bank swallow..

Soup :: Soup (v. t.) To sup or swallow.

Glut :: Glut (v. t.) To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge..

Fork-tailed :: Fork-tailed (a.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds.

Gobble :: Gobble (v. t.) To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.

Martin :: Martin (n.) One of several species of swallows, usually having the tail less deeply forked than the tail of the common swallows..

Dysphagy :: Dysphagy (n.) Difficulty in swallowing.

Absorbent :: Absorbent (a.) Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.

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