Word Meanings - SWILL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett. 3. To inebriate; to fill with drink. I should be loth To meet the rudeness

Additional info about word: SWILL

To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett. 3. To inebriate; to fill with drink. I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers. Milton. (more info) 1. To wash; to drench. As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Shak. 2. Etym:

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• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• SWILLINGS
  See 1
• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• PUNCHER
  One who, or that which, punches.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• DRINK
  p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
• SLICKENS
  The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines.
• SWILL
  To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett. 3. To inebriate; to fill with drink. I should be loth To meet the rudeness
• DRAUGHTSMANSHIP
  The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• PUNCHY
  Short and thick, or fat.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• PUNCHINELLO
  A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. Spectator. (more info) of endearment, dim. of pulcina, pulcino, a chicken, from L.
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
• OVERDRINK
  To drink to excess.
• SELF-DEVOURING
  Devouring one's self or itself. Danham.