Definition of swamp

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Swamp (v. t.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.

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Boggy :: Boggy (a.) Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land..
Hickory :: Hickory (n.) An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter..
Slash :: Slash (n.) Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.
Paludinal :: Paludinal (a.) Inhabiting ponds or swamps.
Slumpy :: Slumpy (a.) Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy.
Swampy :: Swamp (v. i.) To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked..
Palustrine :: Palustrine (a.) Of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy..
Hard :: Hard (n.) A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
Swan :: Swampy (a.) Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as, swampy land..
Wade :: Wade (v. t.) To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps..
Redroot :: Redroot (n.) A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey tea (see under Tea), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rhode Island to Florida..
Water Tupelo :: Water tupelo () A species of large tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) growing in swamps in the southern of the United States. See Ogeechee lime.
Thamyn :: Thamyn (n.) An Asiatic deer (Rucervus Eldi) resembling the swamp deer; -- called also Eld's deer.
Swamping :: Swamped (imp. & p. p.) of Swam.
Maple :: Maple (n.) A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. platanoides.
Water Crake :: Water crake () The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia..
Water Hare :: Water hare () A small American hare or rabbit (Lepus aquaticus) found on or near the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also water rabbit, and swamp hare..
Rucervine :: Rucervine (a.) Of, like, or pertaining to, a deer of the genus Rucervus, which includes the swamp deer of India..
Redwing :: Redwing (n.) A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A North American passerine bird (Agelarius ph/niceus) of the family Icteridae. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird..
Bitternut :: Bitternut (n.) The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.
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