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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swash  \Swash\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Swashed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Swashing}.]  [Probably  of  imitative  origin;  cf  Sw  svasska 
  to  splash,  and  for  sense  3,  Sw  svassa  to  bully,  to 
  rodomontade.] 
  1.  To  dash  or  flow  noisily,  as  water;  to  splash;  as  water 
  swashing  on  a  shallow  place 
 
  2.  To  fall  violently  or  noisily.  [Obs.]  --Holinshed. 
 
  3.  To  bluster;  to  make  a  great  noise;  to  vapor  or  brag. 




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