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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Quail :: Quail (n.) Any gallinaceous bird belonging to Coturnix and several allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis)..
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..
Water Locust :: Water locust () A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.
Swamp :: Swamp (v. t.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
Muck :: Muck (n.) Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps..
Swan :: Swampy (a.) Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as, swampy land..
Swamp :: Swamp (v. i.) To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties..
Ogeechee Lime :: Ogeechee lime () The acid, olive-shaped, drupaceous fruit of a species of tupelo (Nyssa capitata) which grows in swamps in Georgia and Florida..
Swamping :: Swamped (imp. & p. p.) of Swam.
Fenny :: Fenny (a.) Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy..
Water Tupelo :: Water tupelo () A species of large tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) growing in swamps in the southern of the United States. See Ogeechee lime.
Swamp :: Swamp (v. t.) To plunge or sink into a swamp.
Bog :: Bog (n.) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp..
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.
Hard :: Hard (n.) A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
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..
Wade :: Wade (v. t.) To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps..
Water Crake :: Water crake () The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia..
Paludinal :: Paludinal (a.) Inhabiting ponds or swamps.
Upland :: Upland (n.) High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like..
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