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Swill \Swill\, v. i. To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess. --South.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Swill \Swill\, n.

1. The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings.

2. Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Swill \Swill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Swilling.]

[OE. swilen to wash, AS. swilian.]

1. To wash; to drench. [Obs.]

As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. --Shak.

2. [Properly, to drink like a pig. See Swill, n.]

To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily.

Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. --Smollett.

3. To inebriate; to fill with drink.

I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers. --Milton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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