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Swift
SWIFT, a.
1. Moving a great distance or over a large space in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy. We say, soft winds, a swift stream, swift lightnings, swift motion, swift as thought, a fowl swift of wing, a man swift of foot. Swift is applicable to any kind of motion.
2. Ready; prompt.
Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. James 1.
3. Speedy; that comes without delay.
There shall be false teachers among you, who shall privily bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 Pet 2.
SWIFT, n. The current of a stream. [Little used.]
1. In domestic affairs, a reel or turning instrument for winding yarn. [This is a sense directly from the Saxon verb.]
2. A bird, a species of swallow, so called from the rapidity of its flight.
3. The common newt or eft, a species of lizard.
swift appears in definitions for these words:
Acontias Barley-brake Betray Breathe Calling Cassowary Celerity Course Courser Crocodile Crony Cryer Devour Dragon Dromedary Eagle-speed Eagle-winged Equally Expeditious Fast Fleet Fleetfoot Fleetly Fleetness Flighty Flit Flitting Fly Gallop Gleamy Glide Haste Hedge Light Lightlegged Lurcher Masterly Menial Moderate Momentary Nimble Nimbleness Overshoot Pernicity Post Precipice Precipitate Quarter Quick Race Rapid Rapidity Rapidly Rapidness Reasonable Rebound Remedy Reverse Scour Shade Shallow Shoot Slow Speed Speedy Spoom Stain Standish Streak Swallow-fly Sweep Swift Swifter Swiftly Swiftness Swing Thwart Tilt Trochil Valve Velocity Venus Vibrant Viewless Wight Wightly Windy Wing-footed Winged Zerda
Acontias Barley-brake Betray Breathe Calling Cassowary Celerity Course Courser Crocodile Crony Cryer Devour Dragon Dromedary Eagle-speed Eagle-winged Equally Expeditious Fast Fleet Fleetfoot Fleetly Fleetness Flighty Flit Flitting Fly Gallop Gleamy Glide Haste Hedge Light Lightlegged Lurcher Masterly Menial Moderate Momentary Nimble Nimbleness Overshoot Pernicity Post Precipice Precipitate Quarter Quick Race Rapid Rapidity Rapidly Rapidness Reasonable Rebound Remedy Reverse Scour Shade Shallow Shoot Slow Speed Speedy Spoom Stain Standish Streak Swallow-fly Sweep Swift Swifter Swiftly Swiftness Swing Thwart Tilt Trochil Valve Velocity Venus Vibrant Viewless Wight Wightly Windy Wing-footed Winged Zerda
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