Definition of swim

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Swim (v. t.) To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed..

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Swim :: Swim (n.) The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming..
Swim :: Swim (v. t.) To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river..
Nectocalyx :: Nectocalyx (n.) The swimming bell or umbrella of a jellyfish of medusa.
Thaliacea :: Thaliacea (n. pl.) A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and Doliolum..
Sail :: Sail (n.) To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a water fowl..
Medusa :: Medusa (n.) Any free swimming acaleph; a jellyfish.
Gymnocopa :: Gymnocopa (n. pl.) A group of transparent, free-swimming Annelida, having setae only in the cephalic appendages..
Pilidium :: Pilidium (n.) The free-swimming, hat-shaped larva of certain nemertean worms. It has no resemblance to its parent, and the young worm develops in its interior..
Swim :: Swim (v. i.) To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail..
Swim :: Swim (v. i.) To be overflowed or drenched.
Natatorium :: Natatorium (n.) A swimming bath.
Swim :: Swim (v. i.) To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed..
Water Beetle :: Water beetle () Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the family Dytiscidae, and to various genera of the family Hydrophilidae. These beetles swim with great agility, the fringed hind legs acting together like oars..
Scup :: Scup (n.) A marine sparoid food fish (Stenotomus chrysops, or S. argyrops), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also porgee, paugy, porgy, scuppaug..
Pulmograde :: Pulmograde (a.) Swimming by the expansion and contraction, or lunglike movement, of the body, or of the disk, as do the medusae..
Swimmeret :: Swimmer (n.) A swimming bird; one of the natatores.
Transnatation :: Transnatation (n.) The act of swimming across, as a river..
Palmated :: Palmated (a.) Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed..
Tranation :: Tranation (n.) The act of swimming over.
Natantly :: Natantly (adv.) In a floating manner; swimmingly.
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