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SWIM,

1. To float to be supported on water or other fluid not to sink. Most species of wood will swim in water. Any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.

2. To move progressively in water by means of the motion of the hands and feet, or of fins. In Paris, boys are taught to swim by instructors appointed for that purpose. Isaiah 25

Leap in with me into this angry flood,

And swim to yonder point.

3. To float to be borne along by a current. In all states there are men who will swim with the tide of popular opinion.

4. To glide along with a smooth motion, or with a waving motion.

She with pretty and with swimming gait.

A hov'ring mist came swimming o'er his sight.

5. To be dizzy or vertiginous to have a waving motion of the head or a sensation of that kind, or a reeling of the body. The head swims when we walk on high.

6. To be floated to be overflowed or drenched as,the earth swims in rain.

Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim.

All the night I make my bed to swim I water my couch with my tears. Psalms 6

7. To overflow to abound to have abundance.

They now swim in joy.

SWIM, To pass or move on as, to swim a stream. Deer are known to swim rivers and sounds.

Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main.

1. To immerse in water that the lighter parts may swim as, to swim wheat for seed.