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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.
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2. To move progressively in water by means of strokes with
the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
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Leap in with me into this angry flood,
And swim to yonder point. --Shak.
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3. To be overflowed or drenched. --Ps. vi. 6.
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Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim.
--Thomson.
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4. Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
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[They] now swim in joy. --Milton.
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5. To be filled with swimming animals. [Obs.]
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[Streams] that swim full of small fishes. --Chaucer.
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Swimming \Swim"ming\, n.
The act of one who swims.
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Swimming \Swim"ming\, a. [From {Swim} to be dizzy.]
Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming
brain.
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Swimming \Swim"ming\, n.
Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head. --Dryden.
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Swimming \Swim"ming\, a.
1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in,
swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.
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2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes.
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{Swimming bell} (Zool.), a nectocalyx. See Illust. under
{Siphonophora}.

{Swimming crab} (Zool.), any one of numerous species of
marine crabs, as those of the family {Protunidae}, which
have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs
flattened so as to serve as fins.
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