An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language - Part 850
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2. Limber, pliant, agile, S.

_Ferguson._

Dan. _sw.a.n.g_, lean, meagre; Germ. _schw.a.n.k-en_, mot.i.tare.

~Sw.a.n.ky~, _s._ An active or clever young fellow, S.

_Douglas._

~Sw.a.n.ky~, _adj._

1. Perh. empty, hungry.

_Dunbar._

2. Applied to one who is tall, but lank, Fife.

_To_ SWAP, _v. a._ To exchange, S.

Isl. _skipt-a_, mutare.

_To_ SWAP, _v. a._

1. To draw.

_Barbour._

2. To throw with violence.

_Barbour._

3. To strike.

_Wallace._

Isl. _swip-a_, vibrare; _sweip-a_, percutere.

~Swap~, _s._ A sudden stroke.

_Sir Gawan._

SWAP, SWAUP, _s._ The cast or lineaments of the countenance, S.

Isl. _swip-ur_, imago apparens; _swipad-r_, vultu similis.

_Sax. and Gael._

~Swapit~, _part. adj_. Moulded.

_Dunbar._

SWAPPIS, Perh. sedges.

_Pal. Hon._

Teut. _schelp_, carex.

SWAPPYT, _part. pa._ Rolled or huddled together.

_Wallace._

Isl. _sweip-a_, Su. G. _swep-a_, involvere.

SWAR, _s._ A snare.

_Wallace._

Moes. G. _swer-an_, insidiari.

SWARE, SWIRE, SWYRE, _s._

1. The neck.

_Douglas._

2. The declination of a mountain or hill, near the summit, S. corr.

_squair_.

_Dunbar._

3. The most level spot between two hills, Loth.

A. S. _sweor_, a pillar; cervix, the neck.

_To_ SWARF, _v. n._

1. To faint, to swoon, S. _swarth_, Ang.

_Ross_.

2. To become languid.