King James Bible Dictionary

SWIM, verb intransitive

1. To float; to be supported on water or other fluid; not to sink. Most species of wood will swim in water. Any substance will swim whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.

2. To move progressively in water by means of the motion of the hands and feet, or of fins. In Paris, boys are taught to swim by instructors appointed for that purpose. Isaiah 25:11.

Leap in with me into this angry flood,

And swim to yonder point.

3. To float; to be borne along by a current. In all states there are men who will swim with the tide of popular opinion.

4. To glide along with a smooth motion, or with a waving motion.

She with pretty and with swimming gait.

A hov'ring mist came swimming o'er his sight.

5. To be dizzy or vertiginous; to have a waving motion of the head or a sensation of that kind, or a reeling of the body. The head swims when we walk on high.

6. To be floated; to be overflowed or drenched; as, the earth swims in rain.

Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim

All the night I make my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. Psalms 6:6.

7. To overflow; to abound; to have abundance.

They now swim in joy.

SWIM, verb transitive To pass or move on; as, to swim a stream. Deer are known to swim rivers and sounds.

Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main.

1. To immerse in water that the lighter parts may swim; as, to swim wheat for seed.

SWIMM, noun The bladder of fishes, by which they are said to be supported in water.

SWIM'MER, noun One that swims.

1. A protuberance on the leg of a horse.

SWIM'MING, participle present tense Floating on a fluid; moving on a fluid; having a waving or reeling motion; overflowing; abounding.

SWIM'MING, noun The act or art of moving on the water by means of the limbs; a floating.

1. Dizziness.

SWIM'MINGLY, adverb Smoothly; without obstruction; with great success. [Not elegant.]