Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
SWIMMING
naiant, swimming
(adjective) applied to a fish depicted horizontally
liquid, swimming
(adjective) filled or brimming with tears; “swimming eyes”; “sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid”
swimming, swim
(noun) the act of swimming; “it was the swimming they enjoyed most”; “they took a short swim in the pool”
SWIM
float, swim
(verb) be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
swim
(verb) move as if gliding through water; “this snake swims through the soil where it lives”
swim
(verb) travel through water; “We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore”; “a big fish was swimming in the tank”
swim, drown
(verb) be covered with or submerged in a liquid; “the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy”
swim
(verb) be dizzy or giddy; “my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
swimming (countable and uncountable, plural swimmings)
The act or art of sustaining and propelling the body in water.
Etymology 2
Noun
swimming (countable and uncountable, plural swimmings)
The state of being dizzy or in vertigo.
Etymology 3
Verb
swimming
present participle of swim
Source: Wiktionary
Swim"ming, a.
1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.
2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes. Swimming bell (Zoöl.), a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora.
– Swimming crab (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of marine crabs, as those of the family Protunidæ, which have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs flattened so as to serve as fins.
Swim"ming, n.
Definition: The act of one who swims.
Swim"ming, a. Etym: [From Swim to be dizzy.]
Definition: Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.
Swim"ming, n.
Definition: Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head. Dryden.
SWIM
Swim, v. i. [imp. Swam or Swum (; p. p. Swum; p. pr. & vb. n. Swimming.] Etym: [AS. swimman; akin to D. zwemmen, OHG. swimman, G. schwimmen, Icel. svimma, Dan. swömme, Sw. simma. Cf. Sound an air bladder, a strait.]
1. To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, 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 strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail. Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point. Shak.
3. To be overflowed or drenched. Ps. vi. 6. Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim. Thomson.
4. Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid. [They] now swim in joy. Milton.
5. To be filled with swimming animals. [Obs.] [Streams] that swim full of small fishes. Chaucer.
Swim, v. t.
1. To pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a stream. Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main. Dryden.
2. To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river.
3. To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.
Swim, n.
1. The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming. B. Jonson.
2. The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
3. A part of a stream much frequented by fish. [Eng.] Swim bladder, an air bladder of a fish.
– To be in the swim, to be in a favored position; to be associated with others in active affairs. [Colloq.]
Swim, v. i. Etym: [OE. swime dizziness, vertigo, AS. swima; akin to D. zwijm, Icel. svimi dizziness, svina to subside, svia to abate, G. schwindel dizziness, schwinden to disappear, to dwindle, OHG. swinan to dwindle. Cf. Squemish, Swindler.]
Definition: To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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