Word Meanings - SWINGEING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Huge; very large. Arbuthnot. Byron. -- Swinge"ing*ly, adv. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to SWINGEING)

• SWINGE
  See SPENSER
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• BYRONIC
  Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron. With despair and Byronic misanthropy. Thackeray
• LARGE-HANDED
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• LARGE-HEARTED
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• SWINGEING
  Huge; very large. Arbuthnot. Byron. -- Swinge"ing*ly, adv. Dryden.
• LARGE
  Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. At large. Without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large; to be left at large. Diffusely; fully;
• LARGET
  A sport piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.
• SWINGEBUCKLER
  A swashbuckler; a bully; a roiserer. Shak.
• LARGESS; LARGESSE
  1. Liberality; generosity; bounty. Fulfilled of largesse and of all grace. Chaucer. 2. A present; a gift; a bounty bestowed. The heralds finished their proclamation with their usual cry of "Largesse, largesse, gallant knights!" and gold and silver
• SWINGER
  One who swings or whirls.
• LARGELY
  In a large manner. Dryden. Milton.
• LARGENESS
  The quality or state of being large.
• SWINGEL
  The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.
• 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
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• ENLARGED
  Made large or larger; extended; swollen. -- En*lar"ged*ly, adv. -- En*lar"ged*ness, n.
• FOOL-LARGE
  Foolishly liberal. Chaucer.
• ENLARGE
  Etym: 1. To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house. To enlarge their possessions of land. Locke. 2. To increase the capacity of; to expand;
• OVERLARGE
  Too large; too great.
• OVERLARGENESS
  Excess of size or bulk.