To plant a vineyard in July, when the earth is very dry and combustible, plow up the swarth and burn it.

Mortimer.

The noon of night was past, and then the foe Came dreadless o'er the level swart, that lies Between the wood and the swift streaming Ouse. A. Philips.

SWARM, n. s. & v. n. Sax. гpeanm; Belg. swerm; Swed. swarm. A great body or number of small animals, particularly those bees that migrate from the hive: to gather or rise in a body; be crowded or thronged.

These garrisons you have now planted throughout all Ireland, and every place swarms with soldiers.

Spenser.

From this swarm of fair advantages, You griped the general sway into your hand.

Shakspeare.

Id. Macbeth.

The merciless Macdonel, The multiplying villanies of nature Do swarm upon. Her lower region swarms with all sort of fowl, her rivers with fish, and her seas with whole shoals.

Howel.

What a multitude of thoughts at once Awakened in me swarm, while I consider What from within I feel myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears!

Dryden's Eneid.

Then mounts the throne, high placed before the shrine;

In crowds around the swarming people join. Id. Swarmed on a rotten stick the bees I spied. Gay. When bees hang in swarming time, they will presently rise, if the weather hold.

Mortimer's Husbandry. If we could number up those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it, they would amount to more than can be found.

Addison on Italy. This swarm of themes that settles on my pen, Which I, like summer-flies, shake off again, Let others sing

Young.

Life swarms with ills, the boldest are afraid, Where then is safety for a tender maid?

SWART, adj. & v. a.
SWARTH, adj. or
SWARTHY.

complexion to blacken.

speart;

Id. Sax. Goth. swarts. Black; darkly brown; tawny; dark of

A nation strange, with visage swart, And courage fierce, that all men did affray, Through the world then swarmed in every part.

A man

Spenser.

Of swarth complexion, and of crabbed hue, That him full of melancholy did shew. Whereas I was black and swart before; With those clear rays which she infused on me, That beauty am I blest with, which you see.

Id.

Shakspeare. Henry VI. Though in the torrid climates the common color is black or swarthy, yet the natural colour of the temperate climates is more transparent and beautiful. Hale's Origin of Mankind.

swashing blow. Draw, if you be men: Gregory, remember thy Id. Romeo and Juliet.

I have observed these three swashers; three such anticks do not amount to a man. Id. Henry V.

SWATCH, n. s. Corrupted from swath. A swathe. Not in use.

One spreadeth those bands so in order to lie, As barlie in swatches may fill it thereby. Tusser.

SWATH, or SWATHE, n. s. & v. a. Belgic swade. A line of grass cut down by the mower; a band or fillet; to bind.

With tossing and raking, and setting on cox, Grasse, lately in swathes, is meat for an ox.

Tusser.

The strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge, Fall down before him, like the mower's swath. Shakspeare.

He had two sons; the eldest of them at three years old,

I' th' swathing cloaths the other, from their nursery
Were stolen.
Id. Cymbeline.

Their children are never swathed, or bound about with any thing, when they are first born; but are put naked into the bed with their parents to lie.

Grew.

Guardian.

Prior.

Sidney.

Glancing fire out of the iron played,
As sparkles from the anvil rise,
When heavy hammers on the wedge are swayed.

Spenser. The example of sundry churches, for approbation of one thing, doth sway much; but yet still as having the force of an example only, and not of a law. Hooker.

This sort had some fear that the filling up the seats in the consistory with so great number of laymen, was but to please the minds of the people, to the end they might think their own sway somewhat.

Id. Heaven forgive them, that so much have swayed Your majesty's good thoughts away from me.

Shakspeare.

The lady's mad: yet if 'twere so, She could not sway her house, command her followers,

With such a smooth, discreet, and stable bearing.

When examining these matters, let not temporal and little advantages sway you against a more durable interest.

Tillotson.

With these I went, Nor idle stood with unassisting hands, When savage beasts, and men's more savage bands, Their virtuous toils subduing; yet those I swayed With powerful speech: I spoke, and they obeyed. Dryden.

Too truly Tamerlane's successors they ; Each thinks a world too little for his sway.

Id. Aurengzebe. They rush along, the rattling woods give way, The branches bend before their sweepy sway. Dryden.

They will do their best to persuade the world that no man acts upon principle, that all is swayed by particular malice. Davenant. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.

Addison's Cato.

oath; to put to oath; declare upon oath: the noun substantive corresponding.

Id. Henry VI.

Id. Henry VIII.

Id. King Lear.

Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt
To swear against you!

Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly;
Swear not.

Swom ashore, man, like a duck; I can swim like a duck, I'll be sworn. Id. Tempest.

Now, by Apollo, king, thou swear'st thy gods in

vain.

Dryden.

Thee, thee an hundred languages shall claim, And savage Indians swear by Anna's name. Tickell. It is the opinion of our most refined swearers that the same oath or curse cannot, consistently with true politeness, be repeated above nine times in the same company by the same person.

Swift's Polite Conversation. Hark! the shrill notes transpierce the yielding air, And teach the neighbouring echoes how to swear. Young.

SWEAT, n.s., v. n., & v. a. Sax. rpeat; Belg. sweet. The matter evacuated at the pores: of the skin; hence labor; toil; drudgery: to exude, or be moist with such matter; to toil; drudge; emit as sweat the adjective corresponding.

This painful labour of abridging was not easy, but a matter of sweat and watching. 2 Mac. ii. 26. Let them be free, marry them to your heirs, Why sweat they under burthens?

Shakspeare. Merchant of Venice.

Some insensible effluvium, exhaling out of the

biliary disposition. A sudden suppression of it will hurt as well as a suppression of perspiration. In cases of excessive sweating, from hard labor, many people ruin their health for life, and sometimes even bring on sudden death, by too cold drinks, &c. In all cases of excessive persuddenly exposing themselves to cold air, taking spiration, the most speedy and effectual antidote against all dangerous consequences is a glass of spirits, and keeping moderately warm till the perspiration wear gradually off. All persons exposed by their daily labor to excessive sweating should wear flannel next their skin.

When the temperature of the body is much increased, either by being exposed to a hot atmosphere or by violent exercise, the perspired vapor not only increases in quantity, but even appears in a liquid form. This is known by the name of sweat.

Beside water, it cannot be doubted that carbon is also emitted from the skin; but in what state, the experiments hitherto made do not enable us to decide. Mr. Cruickshanks found that the air of the glass vessel in which his hand and foot had been confined for an hour contained carbonic acid gas; for a candle burned dimly in it, and it rendered lime-water turbid, And Mr. Jurine found that air which had remained for some time in contact with the skin, consisted almost entirely of carbonic acid gas. The same conclusion may be drawn from the experiments of Ingenhousz and Milly. Trousset has lately observed that air was separated copiously from a patient of his while bathing. Beside water and carbon, or carbonic acid gas, the skin emits also a particular odorous substance. That every animal has a peculiar smell is well known: the dog can discover his master, and even trace him to a distance by the scent. A

When Lucilius brandishes his pen, And flashes in the face of guilty men, A cold sweat stands in drops on ev'ry part, And rage succeeds to tears, revenge to smart.

Dryden.

For him the rich Arabia sweats her gum. Id. Beans give in the mow; and therefore those that are to be kept are not to be threshed till March, that they have had a thorough sweat in the mow.

Mortimer's Husbandry.

In cold evenings there will be a moisture or sweating upon the stool. Mortimer.

Those who labour

had set out on a journey of some hundred miles, followed his footsteps by the smell. But it is needless to multiply instances of this fact; they are too well known to every one. Now this smell must be owing to some peculiar matter, which is constantly emitted; and this matter must differ somewhat, either in quantity or some other property, as we see that the dog easily distinguishes the individual by means of it. Mr. Cruickshanks has made it probable that this matter is an oily substance; or at least that there is an oily substance emitted by the skin. He wore repeatedly, night and day for a month, the same under waistcoat of fleecy hosiery, during the hottest part of the summer. At the end of this time he always found an oily substance accumulated in considerable masses on the nap of the inner surface of the waistcoat, in the form of black tears. When rubbed on paper it rendered it transparent, and hardened on it like grease. It burned with a white flame, and left behind it a charry residuum.

Berthollet has observed the perspiration acid; and he has concluded that the acid which is present is the phosphoric; but this has not been proved. Fourcroy and Vauquelin have ascertained that the scurf which collects upon the skins of horses consists chiefly of phosphate of lime, and urea is even sometimes mixed with it.