Definition of swallow

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Swallow (n.) Capacity for swallowing; voracity.

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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..
Gobemouche :: Gobemouche (n.) Literally, a fly swallower; hence, once who keeps his mouth open; a boor; a silly and credulous person..
Introsume :: Introsume (v. t.) To draw in; to swallow.
Englut :: Englut (v. t.) To swallow or gulp down.
Burgee :: Burgee (n.) A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels..
Guzzle :: Guzzle (v. t.) To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust; to drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer..
Masticate :: Masticate (v. t.) To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food..
Martin :: Martin (n.) One of several species of swallows, usually having the tail less deeply forked than the tail of the common swallows..
Suck :: Suck (v. t.) To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up..
Swallow :: Swallow (n.) The gullet, or esophagus; the throat..
Swallow :: Swallow (n.) Taste; relish; inclination; liking.
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..
Swallower :: Swallow (n.) That which ingulfs; a whirlpool.
Linchi :: Linchi (n.) An esculent swallow.
Engorgement :: Engorgement (n.) The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.
Maw :: Maw (n.) A stomach; the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing; in birds, the craw; -- now used only of the lower animals, exept humorously or in contempt..
Ruminate :: Ruminate (v. i.) To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed.
Engulf :: Engulf (v. t.) To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.
Swallowed :: Swallow (n.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
Swallow :: Swallow (n.) Capacity for swallowing; voracity.
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