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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..

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.

Politzerization :: Politzerization (n.) The act of inflating the middle ear by blowing air up the nose during the act of swallowing; -- so called from Prof. Politzer of Vienna, who first practiced it..

Swallowtail :: Swallowfish (n.) The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.

Linchi :: Linchi (n.) An esculent 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..

Fissirostral :: Fissirostral (a.) Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers..

Absorbing :: Absorbing (a.) Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit..

Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.

Guttle :: Guttle (n.) To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

Hydrophobia :: Hydrophobia (n.) The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness..

Swallowing :: Swallowed (imp. & p. p.) of Swallo.

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

Engorge :: Engorge (v. t.) To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour.

Ingulf :: Ingulf (v. t.) To swallow up or overwhelm in, or as in, a gulf; to cast into a gulf. See Engulf..

Lurch :: Lurch (v. i.) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up..

Priestcap :: Priestcap (n.) A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail..

Progne :: Progne (n.) A genus of swallows including the purple martin. See Martin.

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

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