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Swamp
Swamp Swamp, v. i.
1. To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become
involved in insuperable difficulties.
2. To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to
capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be
wrecked.
SwampSwamp Swamp, n. [Cf. AS. swam a fungus, OD. swam a sponge, D.
zwam a fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. sv["o]ppr, Dan. &
Sw. swamp, Goth. swamms, Gr. somfo`s porous, spongy.]
Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but
not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the
seashore.
Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern.
--Tennyson.
A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing
trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only
herbage, plants, and mosses. --Farming
Encyc. (E.
Edwards,
Words).
Swamp blackbird. (Zo["o]l.) See Redwing
(b) .
Swamp cabbage (Bot.), skunk cabbage.
Swamp deer (Zo["o]l.), an Asiatic deer (Rucervus
Duvaucelli) of India.
Swamp hen. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) An Australian azure-breasted bird (Porphyrio bellus);
-- called also goollema.
(b) An Australian water crake, or rail (Porzana Tabuensis);
-- called also little swamp hen.
(c) The European purple gallinule.
Swamp honeysuckle (Bot.), an American shrub (Azalea, or
Rhododendron, viscosa) growing in swampy places, with
fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with
rose; -- called also swamp pink.
Swamp hook, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling
logs. Cf. Cant hook.
Swamp itch. (Med.) See Prairie itch, under Prairie.
Swamp laurel (Bot.), a shrub (Kalmia glauca) having small
leaves with the lower surface glaucous.
Swamp maple (Bot.), red maple. See Maple.
Swamp oak (Bot.), a name given to several kinds of oak
which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak
(Quercus palustris), swamp white oak (Q. bicolor),
swamp post oak (Q. lyrata).
Swamp ore (Min.), bog ore; limonite.
Swamp partridge (Zo["o]l.), any one of several Australian
game birds of the genera Synoicus and Excalfatoria,
allied to the European partridges.
Swamp robin (Zo["o]l.), the chewink.
Swamp sassafras (Bot.), a small North American tree of the
genus Magnolia (M. glauca) with aromatic leaves and
fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also sweet
bay.
Swamp sparrow (Zo["o]l.), a common North American sparrow
(Melospiza Georgiana, or M. palustris), closely
resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy
places.
Swamp willow. (Bot.) See Pussy willow, under Pussy. SwampSwamp Swamp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swamped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Swamping.]
1. To plunge or sink into a swamp.
2. (Naut.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to
capsize or sink by whelming with water.
3. Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to
overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped
by the creation of twelve Tory peers. --J. R. Green.
Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus
of a theory. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
Meaning of SWAMP from wikipedia
- A
swamp is a
forested wetland.
Swamps are
considered to be
transition zones because both land and
water play a role in
creating this environment. Swamps...
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Swamp Thing is a
superhero and
antihero appearing in
American comic books published by DC Comics.
Created by
writer Len Wein and
artist Bernie Wrightson...
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swamp is a
wooded wetland.
Swamp or The
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Swamp People is an
American reality television series that was
first broadcast on
History on
August 22, 2010. The show
follows the day-to-day activities...
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Drain the
swamp is a
phrase which has
frequently been used by
politicians since the 1980s and in the U.S.
often refers to
reducing the
influence of special...
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Asmat Swamp is a
wetland on the
southern coast of New Guinea,
located within the
Indonesian province of
South Papua. It is
sometimes claimed to be the...
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Angola Swamp is a
pocosin in
southern coastal North Carolina near Jacksonville, in
Duplin and
Pender counties. Much of the
swamp is
included in the 34...
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Dismal Swamp may
refer to:
Dismal Swamp,
South Australia Dismal Swamp Regional Reserve, a
protected area of
Tasmania Dismal Swamp (New Jersey), a
swamp in...
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Swamp fever may
refer to:
Equine infectious anemia, a
disease Leptospirosis, a
disease Malaria, a
disease Mumps, a
disease Swamp fever, a
disease in The...
- The
swamp rabbit (Sylvilagus aquaticus), also
known as the cane-cutter,
swamper, or cane jake, is a
species of
mammal in the
family Leporidae found in...
