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Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To occupy; to take up; to employ.

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

Swift :: Swift (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, long-winged, insectivorous birds of the family Micropodidae. In form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds..

Eat :: Eat (v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread..

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

Swill :: Swill (n.) To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily.

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

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..

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..

Flapdragon :: Flapdragon (n.) A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing..

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

Chelidonius :: Chelidonius (n.) A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.

Take :: Take (v. t.) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine..

Cultrivorous :: Cultrivorous (a.) Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity..

Ingurgitation :: Ingurgitation (n.) The act of swallowing greedily or immoderately; that which is so swallowed.

Bank Swallow :: Bank swallow () See under 1st Bank, n..

Engorged :: Engorged (p. a.) Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts..

Sea Swallow :: Sea swallow () The storm petrel.

Asclepias :: Asclepias (n.) A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties..

Ingurgitate :: Ingurgitate (v. t.) To swallow up, as in a gulf..

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