swan dive
swallow dive | a dive in which the diver arches the back with arms outstretched before entering the water |
swallow
drink deglutition | the act of swallowing, one swallow of the liquid was enough, he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips |
| swallow | small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations |
barn swallow
chimney swallow Hirundo rustica | common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc. |
cliff swallow
Hirundo pyrrhonota | North American swallow that lives in colonies and builds bottle-shaped mud nests on cliffs and walls |
tree swallow tree martin
Hirundo nigricans | of Australia and Polynesia, nests in tree cavities |
white-bellied swallow
tree swallow Iridoprocne bicolor | bluish-green-and-white North American swallow, nests in tree cavities |
bank martin
bank swallow
sand martin
Riparia riparia | swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks |
wood swallow
swallow shrike | Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow |
blue-headed vireo
Vireo solitarius solitarius | common vireo of northeastern North America with bluish slaty-grey head |
swallow-tailed kite
swallow-tailed hawk
Elanoides forficatus | graceful North American black-and-white kite |
tawny eagle
Aquila rapax | brownish eagle of Africa and parts of Asia |
tawny owl
Strix aluco | reddish-brown European owl having a round head with black eyes |
lowland burrowing treefrog
northern casque-headed frog
Pternohyla fodiens | terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head, of the United States southwest |
| bone-headed dinosaur | bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns |
| black-headed snake | small secretive ground-living snake, found from central United States to Argentina |
rubber boa
tow-headed snake
Charina bottae | boa of grasslands and woodlands of western North America, looks and feels like rubber with tail and head of similar shape |
| fairy swallow | fancy domestic pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet |
chimney swift
chimney swallow Chateura pelagica | American swift that nests in e.g. unused chimneys |
acanthocephalan
spiny-headed worm | any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
white-headed stilt
Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus | stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck |
sea swallow
Sterna hirundo | common tern of Eurasia and America having white black and grey plumage |
gaffsail
gaff-headed sail | a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff |
swallow-tailed coat
swallowtail
morning coat | a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back |
swallow
sup | a small amount of liquid food, a sup of ale |
sinkhole
sink
swallow hole | a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof |
celandine greater celandine
swallowwort swallow wort
Chelidonium majus | perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers |
round-headed leek
Allium sphaerocephalum | Old World leek with a spherical bulb |
| swallow | believe or accept without questioning or challenge, Am I supposed to swallow that story? |
accept live with
swallow | tolerate or accommodate oneself to, I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions, I swallowed the insult, She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies |
| swallow | keep from expressing, I swallowed my anger and kept quiet |
swallow
take back
unsay
withdraw | take back what one has said, He swallowed his words |
| swallow | utter indistinctly, She swallowed the last words of her speech |
| swallow | engulf and destroy, The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries |
swallow
get down | pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking, Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you! |
immerse swallow
swallow up
bury eat up | enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing, The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter |
bald
bald-headed
bald-pated | lacking hair on all or most of the scalp, a bald pate, a bald-headed gentleman |
| shock-headed | having a shock (or untidy mass) of hair, shock-headed teenagers |
broad-headed
roundheaded
short-headed | having a brachycephalic head |
| bullet-headed | having a small round head |
| long-headed | having a dolichocephalic head |
| swallow-tailed | (especially of butterflies and birds) having a forked tail like that of a swallow |
tawny
tawny-brown | of a light brown to brownish orange color, the color of tanned leather |
tawny-colored
tawny-coloured | having a tawny color |
addled
befuddled muddled
muzzy
woolly
wooly
woolly-headed
wooly-minded | confused and vague, used especially of thinking, muddleheaded ideas, your addled little brain, woolly thinking, woolly-headed ideas |
a blockheaded
boneheaded
duncical
duncish
fatheaded
loggerheaded
thick
thickheaded
thick-skulled
wooden-headed | (used informally) stupid |
| mop-headed | (of trees) having a bushy top without a leader, mop-headed cabbage palms |
| headed | having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head, often used in combination, headed bolts, three-headed Cerberus, a cool-headed fighter pilot |
| burr-headed | having a head of straight hair cut very short (hence bristly) |
| large-headed | having a large head |