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Swan   /swɑn/  /swɔn/   Listen
Swan

noun
1.
Stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult.
verb
1.
To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.  Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swear, verify.
2.
Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.  Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, tramp, vagabond, wander.  "Roving vagabonds" , "The wandering Jew" , "The cattle roam across the prairie" , "The laborers drift from one town to the next" , "They rolled from town to town"
3.
Sweep majestically.



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"Swan" Quotes from Famous Books



... his time. My brother Alfgar will be outlawed before he dies, if he has the spirit of a man in him. It is the fashion, my uncle, and I must follow it. So hey for the merry greenwood, and the long ships, and the swan's bath, and all the rest of it. Uncle, you will lend ...
— Hereward, The Last of the English • Charles Kingsley
... vindicate my fame against any charge of irresolution as to leaving Dublin, and was bethinking me of the various modes of prosecuting my journey on the morrow, when we drew up suddenly at the door of the Swan. The arrival of a chaise and four at a small country town inn, suggests to the various employees therein, any thing rather than the traveller in pursuit of the mail, and so the moment I arrived, I was assailed with innumerable proffers ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 2 • Charles James Lever
... hoarse bellow, an ordered stampede upon the deck, and gracefully, with no more seeming effort than a swan upon a garden pond, the Peregrine veered and glided towards the rough skiff with its single ochre sail and its couple of brown-faced fishermen, who had left their nets to watch her advance. Captain Jack leant over ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle
... "I swan," he said. "Ef that ain't jest the thing I have been awantin' for the past twenty year. What'll ye sell me the hull plant ...
— The Scientific American Boy - The Camp at Willow Clump Island • A. Russell Bond
... said the doctor, sympathetically; "life and enjoyment mean to you the howl of a wolf in a forest, the call of a wild swan on the frozen tundras, the smell of a wood fire in some little inn among the mountains. There is more music to you in the quick thud, thud of hoofs on desert mud as a free-stepping horse is led up to your tent ...
— When William Came • Saki


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