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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swim  \Swim\,  v.  i.  [imp.  {Swam}or  {Swum};  p.  p.  {Swum};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Swimming}.]  [AS.  swimman  akin  to  D.  zwemmen  OHG. 
  swimman  G.  schwimmen  Icel.  svimma,  Dan.  sw["o]mme,  Sw 
  simma.  Cf  {Sound}  an  air  bladder,  a  strait.] 
  1.  To  be  supported  by  water  or  other  fluid;  not  to  sink;  to 
  float;  as  any  substance  will  swim,  whose  specific  gravity 
  is  less  than  that  of  the  fluid  in  which  it  is  immersed. 
 
  2.  To  move  progressively  in  water  by  means  of  strokes  with 
  the  hands  and  feet,  or  the  fins  or  the  tail. 
 
  Leap  in  with  me  into  this  angry  flood,  And  swim  to 
  yonder  point.  --Shak. 
 
  3.  To  be  overflowed  or  drenched.  --Ps.  vi  6. 
 
  Sudden  the  ditches  swell,  the  meadows  swim. 
  --Thomson. 
 
  4.  Fig.:  To  be  as  if  borne  or  floating  in  a  fluid. 
 
  [They]  now  swim  in  joy.  --Milton. 
 
  5.  To  be  filled  with  swimming  animals.  [Obs.] 
 
  [Streams]  that  swim  full  of  small  fishes.  --Chaucer. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swam  \Swam\, 
  imp.  of  {Swim}. 




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