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2. Limber, pliant, agile, S.
_Ferguson._
Dan. _sw.a.n.g_, lean, meagre; Germ. _schw.a.n.k-en_, mot.i.tare.
~Sw.a.n.ky~, _s._ An active or clever young fellow, S.
_Douglas._
~Sw.a.n.ky~, _adj._
1. Perh. empty, hungry.
_Dunbar._
2. Applied to one who is tall, but lank, Fife.
_To_ SWAP, _v. a._ To exchange, S.
Isl. _skipt-a_, mutare.
_To_ SWAP, _v. a._
1. To draw.
_Barbour._
2. To throw with violence.
_Barbour._
3. To strike.
_Wallace._
Isl. _swip-a_, vibrare; _sweip-a_, percutere.
~Swap~, _s._ A sudden stroke.
_Sir Gawan._
SWAP, SWAUP, _s._ The cast or lineaments of the countenance, S.
Isl. _swip-ur_, imago apparens; _swipad-r_, vultu similis.
_Sax. and Gael._
~Swapit~, _part. adj_. Moulded.
_Dunbar._
SWAPPIS, Perh. sedges.
_Pal. Hon._
Teut. _schelp_, carex.
SWAPPYT, _part. pa._ Rolled or huddled together.
_Wallace._
Isl. _sweip-a_, Su. G. _swep-a_, involvere.
SWAR, _s._ A snare.
_Wallace._
Moes. G. _swer-an_, insidiari.
SWARE, SWIRE, SWYRE, _s._
1. The neck.
_Douglas._
2. The declination of a mountain or hill, near the summit, S. corr.
_squair_.
_Dunbar._
3. The most level spot between two hills, Loth.
A. S. _sweor_, a pillar; cervix, the neck.
_To_ SWARF, _v. n._
1. To faint, to swoon, S. _swarth_, Ang.
_Ross_.
2. To become languid.
