So now all three one senseless lump remain,
Enwallowed in his own black bloody gore. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who cleans pots; a scullion. [ Slang, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) See Cornish chough, under Chough. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The most common North American species are the barn swallow (see under Barn), the cliff, or eaves, swallow (see under Cliff), the white-bellied, or tree, swallow (Tachycineta bicolor), and the bank swallow (see under Bank). The common European swallow (Chelidon rustica), and the window swallow, or martin (Chelidon urbica), are familiar species. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves. Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swallow plover (Zool.), any one of several species of fork-tailed ploverlike birds of the genus Glareola, as Glareola orientalis of India; a pratincole. --
Swallow shrike (Zool.), any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic birds of the family Artamiidae, allied to the shrikes but similar to swallows in appearance and habits. The ashy swallow shrike (Artamus fuscus) is common in India. --
Swallow warbler (Zool.), any one of numerous species of East Indian and Australian singing birds of the genus Dicaeum. They are allied to the honeysuckers. [ 1913 Webster ]

As if I had swallowed snowballs for pills. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses. Num. xvi. 32. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though that story . . . be not so readily swallowed. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up. [ 1913 Webster ]

Homer excels . . . in this, that he swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To occupy; to take up; to employ. [ 1913 Webster ]

The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corruption swallowed what the liberal hand
Of bounty scattered. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions. “Swallowed his vows whole.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To absorb; imbibe; ingulf; engross; consume. See Absorb. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The gullet, or esophagus; the throat. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Taste; relish; inclination; liking. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I have no swallow for it. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Capacity for swallowing; voracity. [ 1913 Webster ]

There being nothing too gross for the swallow of political rancor. Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. That which ingulfs; a whirlpool. [ Obs. ] Fabyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A species of willow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Fort.) An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also priestcap. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A swallow-tailed coat. [ 1913 Webster ]

This Stultz coat, a blue swallowtail, with yellow buttons. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An arrow. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of large and handsome butterflies, belonging to Papilio and allied genera, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The black swallowtail, or asterias (see Papilio), the blue swallowtail, or philenor, the tiger swallowtail, or turnus (see Turnus), and the zebra swallowtail, or ajax (see under Zebra) are common American species. See also Troilus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Carp.) United by dovetailing; dovetailed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swallow-tailed duck (Zool.), the old squaw. --
Swallow-tailed gull (Zool.), an Arctic gull (Xema furcata), which has a deeply forked tail. --
Swallow-tailed hawk or
Swallow-tailed kite (Zool.), the fork-tailed kite. --
Swallow-tailed moth (Zool.), a European moth (Urapteryx sambucaria) having tail-like lobes on the hind wings. [ 1913 Webster ]

African swallowwort, a plant of the genus Stapelia. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room. [ 1913 Webster ]

The plaster of the wall of the King's palace. Dan. v. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense. [ 1913 Webster ]

The waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. Ex. xiv. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

In such a night,
Troilus, methinks, mounted the Troyan walls. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To rush undaunted to defend the walls. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mining) (a) The side of a level or drift. (b) The country rock bounding a vein laterally. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Wall is often used adjectively, and also in the formation of compounds, usually of obvious signification; as in wall paper, or wall-paper; wall fruit, or wall-fruit; wallflower, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blank wall, Blind wall, etc. See under Blank, Blind, etc. --
To drive to the wall, to bring to extremities; to push to extremes; to get the advantage of, or mastery over. --
To go to the wall, to be hard pressed or driven; to be the weaker party; to be pushed to extremes. --
To take the wall. to take the inner side of a walk, that is, the side next the wall; hence, to take the precedence. “I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.” Shak. --
Wall barley (Bot.), a kind of grass (Hordeum murinum) much resembling barley; squirrel grass. See under Squirrel. --
Wall box. (Mach.) See Wall frame, below. --
Wall creeper (Zool.), a small bright-colored bird (Tichodroma muraria) native of Asia and Southern Europe. It climbs about over old walls and cliffs in search of insects and spiders. Its body is ash-gray above, the wing coverts are carmine-red, the primary quills are mostly red at the base and black distally, some of them with white spots, and the tail is blackish. Called also spider catcher. --
Wall cress (Bot.), a name given to several low cruciferous herbs, especially to the mouse-ear cress. See under Mouse-ear. --
Wall frame (Mach.), a frame set in a wall to receive a pillow block or bearing for a shaft passing through the wall; -- called also wall box. --
Wall fruit, fruit borne by trees trained against a wall. --
Wall gecko (Zool.), any one of several species of Old World geckos which live in or about buildings and run over the vertical surfaces of walls, to which they cling by means of suckers on the feet. --
Wall lizard (Zool.), a common European lizard (Lacerta muralis) which frequents houses, and lives in the chinks and crevices of walls; -- called also wall newt. --
Wall louse, a wood louse. --
Wall moss (Bot.), any species of moss growing on walls. --
Wall newt (Zool.), the wall lizard. Shak. --
Wall paper, paper for covering the walls of rooms; paper hangings. --
Wall pellitory (Bot.), a European plant (Parictaria officinalis) growing on old walls, and formerly esteemed medicinal. --
Wall pennywort (Bot.), a plant (Cotyledon Umbilicus) having rounded fleshy leaves. It is found on walls in Western Europe. --
Wall pepper (Bot.), a low mosslike plant (Sedum acre) with small fleshy leaves having a pungent taste and bearing yellow flowers. It is common on walls and rocks in Europe, and is sometimes seen in America. --
Wall pie (Bot.), a kind of fern; wall rue. --
Wall piece, a gun planted on a wall. H. L. Scott. --
Wall plate (Arch.), a piece of timber placed horizontally upon a wall, and supporting posts, joists, and the like. See Illust. of Roof. --
Wall rock, granular limestone used in building walls. [ U. S. ] Bartlett. --
Wall rue (Bot.), a species of small fern (Asplenium Ruta-muraria) growing on walls, rocks, and the like. --
Wall spring, a spring of water issuing from stratified rocks. --
Wall tent, a tent with upright cloth sides corresponding to the walls of a house. --
Wall wasp (Zool.), a common European solitary wasp (Odynerus parietus) which makes its nest in the crevices of walls. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wall knot, a knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second and through the bight of the first; a wale knot. Wall knots may be single or double, crowned or double-crowned. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king of Thebes, Amphion,
That with his singing walled that city. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify. [ 1913 Webster ]

The terror of his name that walls us in. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ His hood ] was trussed up in his walet. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A pocketbook for keeping money about the person. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything protuberant and swagging. “Wallets of flesh.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses. Booth. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Jonson has defined wall-eye to be “a disease in the crystalline humor of the eye; glaucoma.” But glaucoma is not a disease of the crystalline humor, nor is wall-eye a disease at all, but merely a natural blemish. Tully. In the north of England, as Brockett states, persons are said to be wall-eyed when the white of the eye is very large and distorted, or on one side. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes; -- called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch. (b) A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus). (c) The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Shakespeare, in using wall-eyed as a term of reproach (as “wall-eyed rage, ” a “wall-eyed wretch”), alludes probably to the idea of unnatural or distorted vision. See the Note under Wall-eye. It is an eye which is utterly and incurably perverted, an eye that knows no pity. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is sometimes extended to other species of Cheiranthus and of the related genus Erysimum, especially the American Western wallflower (Erysimum asperum), a biennial herb with orange-yellow flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) In Australia, the desert poison bush (Gastrolobium grandiflorum); -- called also native wallflower. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Walls, in general; material for walls. [ 1913 Webster ]

Walling wax, a composition of wax and tallow used by etchers and engravers to make a bank, or wall, round the edge of a plate, so as to form a trough for holding the acid used in etching, and the like. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]