Word Meanings - SWARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Skin; covering. Halliwell. 2. The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf. The sward was trim as any garden lawn. Tennyson. Sward pork, bacon in large fitches.
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- GARDEN
German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten; akin to AS. geard. See Yard 1. A piece of ground appropriates to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables. 2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. I am arrived from fruitful - BACON
The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's - BACONIAN
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - SURFACE LOADING
The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface. - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - FILLIPEEN
See PHILOPENA - GRASSLESS
Destitute of grass. - FILLIBEG
A kilt. See Filibeg. - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - SWARD-CUTTER
A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower. - FILLETING
The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively. - FILLER
One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling. 'T is mere filer, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - GARDENING
The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture. - COVERT BARON
Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. - SWARD
1. Skin; covering. Halliwell. 2. The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf. The sward was trim as any garden lawn. Tennyson. Sward pork, bacon in large fitches. - GARDENSHIP
Horticulture. - GRASSPLOT
A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn. "Here on this grassplot." Shak. - COVERTNESS
Secrecy; privacy. - ALEPPO GRASS
One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - ENLARGEMENT
1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an - WATER GRASS
The water cress. (more info) A tall march perennial grass of the southern United States and the American tropics. Manna grass. The grass Chloris elegans. Velvet grass. - FOOL-LARGESSE
Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer. - SISAL GRASS; SISAL HEMP
The prepared fiber of the Agave Americana, or American aloe, used for cordage; -- so called from Sisal, a port in Yucatan. See Sisal hemp, under Hemp. - DOOB GRASS
A perennial, creeping grass , highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States.