swats

n. The act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An implement with a flat part (a mesh of metal or plastic) and a long handle, used to kill insects by striking them. The handle is typically about one foot long and the flat mesh at the end (usually of plastic) is about 5 inces square.
Syn. -- swatter. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. [ See Sweat. ] Spent with heat; covered with sweat. [ Obs. ] P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inswathed p. pr. & vb. n. Inswating. ] To wrap up; to infold; to swathe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inswathed sometimes in wandering mist. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Skr. Sarasvatī. ] (Hind. Myth.) The sakti or wife of Brahma; the Hindoo goddess of learning, music, and poetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. to hit, especially with an instrument in the hand; to smack.

2. (Baseball) to hit (a baseball) powerfully, and for a long distance.

obs. imp. of Sweat. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Also spelled swot. ] 1. a sharp blow, especially one made with an instrument in the hand.

2. (Baseball) a powerful hit, especially a home run.

n. a former state in Northwest India, now a part of Pakistan. It was ruled by a prince called a Wali.

n. 1. A swath. [ Obs. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth. Halliwell. Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Sweat. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. swaðu a track, trace; akin to D. zwaad, zwad, zwade, a swath of grass, G. schwad, schwaden; perhaps, originally, a shred. Cf. Swathe, v. t. ] 1. A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The whole sweep of a scythe, or the whole breadth from which grass or grain is cut by a scythe or a machine, in mowing or cradling; as, to cut a wide swath. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A band or fillet; a swathe. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swath bank, a row of new-mown grass. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Swathed p. pr. & vb. n. Swathing. ] [ OE. swathen, AS. sweðain. See Swath, n., and cf. Swaddle. ] To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their children are never swathed or bound about with any thing when they are first born. Abp. Abbot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bandage; a band; a swath. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wrapped me in above an hundred yards of swathe. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Milk and a swathe, at first, his whole demand. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

The solemn glory of the afternoon, with its long swathes of light between the far off rows of limes. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Swath, n. ] (Agric.) A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Sweat. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ acronym: Special Weapons and Training. ] a special group of police trained to deal with unusually dangerous or violent situations, and having special weapons, such as rifles more powerful than those carried by regular police officers. They are employed, for example, in situations when hostages are being held, or heavily armed persons need to be captured. Called also SWAT or S.W.A.T..

n. [ From the river Tees, northern England. ] 1. A breed of cattle formerly bred in England, but supposed to have originated in Holland and to have been the principal stock from which the shorthorns were derived. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. An old English breed of sheep allied to the Leicester. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]