Definition of swim

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Swim (v. i.) Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.

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Flete :: Flete (v. i.) To float; to swim.
Anseres :: Anseres (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc..
Tornaria :: Tornaria (n.) The peculiar free swimming larva of Balanoglossus. See Illust. in Append.
Palmiped :: Palmiped (n.) A swimming bird; a bird having webbed feet.
Swimming :: Swimming (a.) That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion..
Pteropoda :: Pteropoda (n. pl.) A class of Mollusca in which the anterior lobes of the foot are developed in the form of broad, thin, winglike organs, with which they swim at near the surface of the sea..
Swim :: Swim (v. t.) To pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a stream..
Planoblast :: Planoblast (n.) Any free-swimming gonophore of a hydroid; a hydroid medusa.
Swamp :: Swam () imp. of Swim.
Fin :: Fin (n.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks..
Gymnophthalmata :: Gymnophthalmata (n. pl.) A group of acalephs, including the naked-eyed medusae; the hydromedusae. Most of them are known to be the free-swimming progeny (gonophores) of hydroids..
Schizopoda :: Schizopoda (n. pl.) A division of shrimplike Thoracostraca in which each of the thoracic legs has a long fringed upper branch (exopodite) for swimming.
Natatorious :: Natatorious (a.) Adapted for swimming; -- said of the legs of certain insects.
Supernatant :: Supernatant (a.) Swimming above; floating on the surface; as, oil supernatant on water..
Tomopteris :: Tomopteris (n.) A genus of transparent marine annelids which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or forked finlike organs (parapodia). This genus is the type of the order, or suborder, Gymnocopa..
Air Jacket :: Air jacket () A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming..
Swim :: Swim (v. i.) To be overflowed or drenched.
Zoospore :: Zoospore (n.) A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, algae. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozoospores and the smaller microzoospores. Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore..
Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc..
Umbrella :: Umbrella (n.) The umbrellalike disk, or swimming bell, of a jellyfish..
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