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  6  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swimming  \Swim"ming\,  n. 
  The  act  of  one  who  swims. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swimming  \Swim"ming\,  a.  [From  {Swim}  to  be  dizzy.] 
  Being  in  a  state  of  vertigo  or  dizziness;  as  a  swimming 
  brain. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swimming  \Swim"ming\,  n. 
  Vertigo;  dizziness;  as  a  swimming  in  the  head.  --Dryden. 
 
  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]: 
 
  Swimming  \Swim"ming\,  a. 
  1.  That  swims;  capable  of  swimming;  adapted  to  or  used  in 
  swimming;  as  a  swimming  bird;  a  swimming  motion. 
 
  2.  Suffused  with  moisture;  as  swimming  eyes. 
 
  {Swimming  bell}  (Zo["o]l.),  a  nectocalyx.  See  Illust.  under 
  {Siphonophora}. 
 
  {Swimming  crab}  (Zo["o]l.),  any  one  of  numerous  species  of 
  marine  crabs,  as  those  of  the  family  {Protunid[ae]},  which 
  have  some  of  the  joints  of  one  or  more  pairs  of  legs 
  flattened  so  as  to  serve  as  fins. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  swimming 
  adj  1:  filled  or  brimming  with  tears;  "swimming  eyes";  "watery 
  eyes";  "sorrow  made  the  eyes  of  many  grow  liquid" 
  [syn:  {liquid},  {watery}] 
  2:  (heraldry)  applied  to  a  fish  depicted  horizontally  [syn:  {naiant}] 
  n  :  the  act  of  swimming  [syn:  {swim}]




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