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Sword"fish` (?), n. 1. (Zoöl.) (a) A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidæ. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long. (b) The gar pike. (c) The cutlass fish.

2. (Astron.) A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1.

Swordfish sucker (Zoöl.), a remora (Remora brachyptera) which attaches itself to the swordfish.

Sword"ick (?), n. (Zoöl.) The spotted gunnel (Murænoides gunnellus). [Prov. Eng.]

Sword"ing (?), n. Slashing with a sword. Tennyson.

Sword"less (?), a. Destitute of a sword.

Sword"man (?), n.; pl. Swordmen (&?;). A swordsman. "Sinewy swordmen." Shak.

Sword"play` (?), n. Fencing; a sword fight.

Sword"play`er (?), n. A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.

Sword"-shaped` (?), a. (Bot.) Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.

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.

Swords"man*ship, n. The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.

Sword"tail` (?), n. (Zoöl.) (a) The limulus. (b) Any hemipterous insect of the genus Uroxiphus, found upon forest trees.

Swore (?), imp. of Swear.

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 (?), 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 (?), 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 (?), v. & n. Swoon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Swum (?), imp. & p. p. of Swim.

Swung (?), imp. & p. p. of Swing.