Word Meanings - SWASHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Swaggering; hectoring. "A swashing and martial outside." Shak. 2. Resounding; crushing. "Swashing blow." Shak.

Related words: (words related to SWASHING)

• SWASHY
  Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.
• MARTIALIST
  A warrior. Fuller.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• HECTORISM
  The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying.
• SWASHING
  1. Swaggering; hectoring. "A swashing and martial outside." Shak. 2. Resounding; crushing. "Swashing blow." Shak.
• OUTSIDER
  1. One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling. A. Trollope. 2. A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the
• MARTIAL
  Pertaining to, or containing, iron; chalybeate; as, martial preparations. Martial flowers , a reddish crystalline salt of iron; the ammonio-chloride of iron. -- Martial law, the law administered by the military power of a government when it
• HECTORLY
  Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting. "Hectorly, ruffianlike swaggering or huffing." Barrow.
• SWAGGERER
  One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow. Shak.
• MARTIALLY
  In a martial manner.
• SWASHER
  One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms. Shak.
• CRUSH
  LL. cruscire, prob. of Ger. origin, from a derivative of the word seen in Goth. kruistan to gnash; akin to Sw. krysta to squeeze, Dan. 1. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of
• HECTOR
  A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.
• SWASHBUCKLER
  A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer. Milton.
• CRUSHER
  One who, or that which, crushes. Crusher gauge, an instrument for measuring the explosive force of gunpowder, etc., by its effect in compressing a piece of metal.
• MARTIALISM
  The quality of being warlike; exercises suitable for war.
• SWASHWAY
  See 2
• MARTIALNESS
  The quality of being martial.
• SWASH
  An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work. Moxon. Swash plate , a revolving circular plate, set obliquely on its shaft, and acting as a cam to give a reciprocating motion to a rod in a direction parallel to the shaft.
• OUTSIDE
  1. The external part of a thing; the part, end, or side which forms the surface; that which appears, or is manifest; that which is superficial; the exterior. There may be great need of an outside where there is little or nothing within. South.
• COURT-MARTIAL
  A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
• IMMARTIAL
  Not martial; unwarlike.