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Swift   /swɪft/   Listen
Swift

adjective
(compar. swifter; superl. swiftest)
1.
Moving very fast.  Synonym: fleet.  "The fleet scurrying of squirrels" , "A swift current" , "Swift flight of an arrow" , "A swift runner"
noun
1.
United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (1839-1903).  Synonym: Gustavus Franklin Swift.
2.
An English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745).  Synonyms: Dean Swift, Jonathan Swift.
3.
A small bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight.
4.
Common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks.  Synonyms: blue-belly, Sceloporus occidentalis, western fence lizard.



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"Swift" Quotes from Famous Books



... religious history. The series forms, in fact, a painted novella of monastic life; its petty jealousies, its petty trials, its tribulations and temptations, and its indescribably petty miracles. Bazzi was well fitted for the execution of this task. He had a swift and facile brush, considerable versatility in the treatment of monotonous subjects, and a never-failing sense of humour. His white-cowled monks, some of them with the rosy freshness of boys, some with the handsome brown faces of middle life, others astute and crafty, ...
— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds

... dust of pleading by certain sprinklings which Huntington Jackson, another ex-soldier, and I managed to contrive together. A little later in the day, in Bob Morse's, I saw a real writ, acquired a practical conviction of the difference between assumpsit and trover, and marvelled open-mouthed at the swift certainty with which a master of his ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various

... a quick glance he shot over, but I caught who it was aimed at. Also, I noticed the effect. And just like that I had a swift hunch how all this ground-floor mix-up might be ...
— Wilt Thou Torchy • Sewell Ford

... to each other, took a swift survey, and made up their minds before David had poked the fire. Christie saw a pretty face with rosy cheeks, blue eyes, and brown rings of hair lying on the smooth, low forehead; a young face, but not childlike, ...
— Work: A Story of Experience • Louisa May Alcott

... swift and easy for the body," said the unfortunate Princess, "were it but a safe and happy change for the soul, the woman lives not that would take the step so soon as I—But, alas! Melville, when we think of death, a thousand sins, which we have trod as worms beneath our feet, ...
— The Abbot • Sir Walter Scott


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