Definition of swing

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Swinging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swin.

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Meritot :: Meritot (n.) A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy..
Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To fasten in a manner which will allow of free motion upon the point or points of suspension; -- said of a pendulum, a swing, a door, gate, etc..
Swing :: Swing (v. i.) To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate..
Flail :: Flail (n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely..
Whippletree :: Whippletree (n.) The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces, or tugs, of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree. See Singletree..
Moulinet :: Moulinet (n.) In sword and saber exercises, a circular swing of the weapon..
Swingeing :: Swinged (imp. & p. p.) of Swing.
Waver :: Waver (v. i.) To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter..
Thresher :: Thresher (n.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark..
Tail :: Tail (v. i.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream..
Swinge :: Swinge (v. t.) To move as a lash; to lash.
Swinger :: Swinger (n.) Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing..
Pintle :: Pintle (n.) A pivot about which the chassis swings, in some kinds of gun carriages..
Swingling :: Swingletree (v. i.) A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree..
Sway :: Sway (v. i.) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.
Swinish :: Swingtree (n.) The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened; the whiffletree.
Unhang :: Unhang (v. t.) To remove (something hanging or swinging) from that which supports it; as, to unhang a gate..
Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty..
Oscillatory :: Oscillatory (a.) Moving, or characterized by motion, backward and forward like a pendulum; swinging; oscillating; vibratory; as, oscillatory motion..
Sway :: Sway (n.) The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon.
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