Third-person singular simple present indicative form of draw
resaw
resaw
verb
(transitive) To saw again or anew, as with, especially, recutting (remilling) lumber by remaking boards into thinner boards.
simple past tense of resee
sawer
sawer
noun
One who saws; a sawyer.
scraw
scraw
noun
A sod of grass-grown turf from the surface of a bog or from a field.
A turf covering the roof of a cottage beneath the thatch.
seraw
sewar
sewar
noun
(India, historical) A native trooper.
sowar
sowar
noun
(historical, India) A soldier on horseback, especially one during the British Raj.
starw
straw
straw
adj
(figurative) Imaginary, but presented as real.
Made of straw.
Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
noun
(countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
(countable) A drinking straw.
(figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
(uncommon) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
(uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
verb
(obsolete, slang) To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.
To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
sward
sward
noun
(Philippines) A homosexual man.
(countable) An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow.
(countable, obsolete except Britain, dialectal) The rind of bacon or pork; also, the outer covering or skin of something.
(countable, obsolete) The upper layer of the ground, especially when vegetation is growing on it.
(uncountable) Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; (countable) a portion of such earth.
verb
(intransitive) Of ground, etc.: to be covered with sward; to develop a covering of sward.
(transitive) To cover (ground, etc.) with sward.
sware
sware
noun
(obsolete) Alternative form of swear
verb
(archaic) simple past tense of swear
swarf
swarf
noun
(countable) A particular waste chip or shaving.
(obsolete) A faint or swoon.
(uncountable) The waste chips or shavings from an abrasive activity, such as metalworking, a saw cutting wood, or the use of a grindstone or whetstone.
verb
(intransitive, Scotland, obsolete) To grow languid; to faint.
(transitive) To grind down.
swarm
swarm
noun
(computing) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
verb
(intransitive) To move as a swarm.
(intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
(transitive) To fill a place as a swarm.
(transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
To breed multitudes.
To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
swart
swart
adj
(UK dialectal) Black.
(obsolete) Gloomy; malignant.
Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
noun
(IE dialectal) Variant of swath.
(UK dialectal) Black or dark dyestuff.
Obsolete spelling of sward
verb
(transitive) To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan.