Vocabulary : Swanskin to Swarding
Swanskin : The act of a swan with the down or the feathers on. ;; A species of soft flannel, thick and warm.Swan-upping : A yearly expedition on the Thames to take up young swans and mark them, as by Companies of Dyers and Vintners; -- called also swan-hopping.
Swap : To strike; -- with off. ;; To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop. ;; To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently. ;; To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap. ;; A blow; a stroke. ;; An exchange; a barter. ;; Hastily.
Swape : See Sweep, n., 12.
Swapped : of Swap