Sword-shaped
(Sword"-shaped`) a. (Bot.) Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the
Iris, cattail, and the like.
Swordsman
(Swords"man) n.; pl. Swordsmen
1. A soldier; a fighting man.
2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
Swordsmanship
(Swords"man*ship), n. The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword.
Cowper.
Swordtail
(Sword"tail`) n. (Zoöl.) (a) The limulus. (b) Any hemipterous insect of the genus Uroxiphus,
found upon forest trees.
Swore
(Swore) imp. of Swear.
Sworn
(Sworn) p. p. of Swear.
Sworn brothers, originally, companions in arms who took an oath to share together good and bad
fortune; hence, faithful friends. — Sworn enemies, determined or irreconcilable enemies. — Sworn
friends, close friends.
Swough
(Swough) n. [See Swoon.]
1. A sound; a groan; a moan; a sough. [Obs.]
He sigheth with full many a sorry swough.
Chaucer. 2. A swoon. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Swound
(Swound) v. & n. See Swoon, v. & n. [Prov. Eng. or Archaic] Shak. Dryden.
The landlord stirred
As one awaking from a swound.
Longfellow.
('Swounds) interj. [Cf. Zounds.] An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; — used as an oath.
[Obs. or Archaic] Shak.
Swown
(Swown) v. & n. Swoon. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Swum
(Swum) imp. & p. p. of Swim.
Swung
(Swung) imp. & p. p. of Swing.
Swythe
(Swythe) adv. Quickly. See Swithe. [Obs.]
Sy
(Sy) obs. imp. of See. Saw. Chaucer.
Syb
(Syb) a. See Sib. [Obs. or Scot.]
Sybarite
(Syb"a*rite) n. [L. Sybarita, Gr. fr. a city in Italy, noted for the effeminacy and voluptuousness
of its inhabitants; cf. F. Sybarite.] A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a voluptuary.
Sybaritic
(Syb`a*rit"ic Syb`a*rit"ic*al) a. [L. Sybariticus, Gr. .] Of or pertaining to the Sybarites; resembling
the Sybarites; luxurious; wanton; effeminate. "Sybaritic dinners." Bp. Warburton. "Sybaritical cloistres."
Bp. Hall.
