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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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1828 Definition
SWING, v.i. pret. and pp. swung.
SWING, v.t. To make to play loosely; to cause to wave or vibrate; as a body suspended in the air.
SWING, n. A waving or vibratory motion; oscillation; as the swing of a pendulum.
1913 Definition
To move to and fro, as a body
suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer, in case of exsuction of the air. Boyle. To sway or move from one side or direction
to another; as, the door swung open.
To use a swing; as, a boy swings for
exercise or pleasure. See Swing,
To turn round by action of
wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the
tide.
To be hanged.
[Colloq.] D.
Webster.
To swing round the circle, to make a complete circuit. [Colloq.] He had swung round the circle of theories and systems in which his age abounded, without finding relief. A. V. G. Allen. To
cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or
from one side to the other.
He swings his tail, and swiftly turns his round. Dryden. They get on ropes, as you must have seen the children, and are swung by their men visitants. Spectator. To give a circular movement to; to whirl;
to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club;
hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a
business.
To admit or turn (anything)
for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can
swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.
To swing a door, gate, etc. (Carp.), to put it on hinges so that it can swing or turn. The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion
of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a
pendulum.
Swaying motion from one side or direction
to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.
A line, cord, or other thing suspended and
hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus
for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two
ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat
being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which
a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise.
Influence of power of a body put in swaying
motion.
The ram that batters down the wall, Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined
by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in
it.
Free course; unrestrained liberty or
license; tendency.
"Take thy swing." Dryden.
To prevent anything which may prove an obstacle to the full swing of his genius. Burke. Full swing. See under Full. --
Swing beam (Railway Mach.), a crosspiece
sustaining the car body, and so suspended from the framing of a truck
that it may have an independent lateral motion. -- Swing
bridge, a form of drawbridge which swings horizontally,
as on a vertical pivot. -- Swing plow, or
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