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- English Word Swoopstake Definition Altogether; indiscriminately.
- English Word Swop Definition Same as Swap.
- English Word Sword Definition An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.
- English Word Sword Definition Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.
- English Word Sword Definition Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.
- English Word Sword Definition The military power of a country.
- English Word Sword Definition One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
- English Word Sword-shaped Definition Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
- English Word Swordbill Definition A humming bird (Docimastes ensiferus) having a very long, slender bill, exceeding the length of the body of the bird.
- English Word Sworded Definition Girded with a sword.
- English Word Sworder Definition One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat.
- English Word Swordfish Definition A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long.
- English Word Swordfish Definition The gar pike.
- English Word Swordfish Definition The cutlass fish.
- English Word Swordfish Definition A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1.
- English Word Swordick Definition The spotted gunnel (Muraenoides gunnellus).
- English Word Swording Definition Slashing with a sword.
- English Word Swordless Definition Destitute of a sword.
- English Word Swordman Definition A swordsman.
- English Word Swordmen Definition of Swordman