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▪ I. swinge, n.1 Obs. exc. dial.|swɪndʒ|
Also 6 swynge, 6–7 swindge.
[Related to swinge v.1]
†1. Sway, power, rule, authority, influence: esp. to have swinge or bear swinge, the (full, whole, chief) or all the swinge, etc. Obs.
1531Tindale Expos. 1 John v. 21 (1538) 83 Yf in .x. paryshes rounde ther be not one learned and discrete to helpe the other, then the deuell hath a greate swynge amonge vs, that the byshops officers that dwel so farre of, must abuse vs as they do. 1536Rem. Sedition 16 The euyl be mo in nombre, they bere the swynge. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI, 151 She bare the whole swynge, as the strong oxe doth, when he is yoked in the plough with a pore silly asse. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. (1887) 150 An oligarchie: where some few beare all the swinge. 1585C. Fetherstone tr. Calvin on Acts iv. 33 The Sadduces..did then beare the chiefe swindge. 1601J. Wheeler Treat. Comm. 37 The Antwerpians..in all the Marts, & Faires in Dutchland, bare the chiefest swindge. 1612Chapman Rev. Bussy d'Ambois i. i, When Glory, Flatterie, and smooth applauses of things ill Vphold th' inordinate swindge of downe-right power. 1629Massinger Picture ii. ii. (1630) E 2 b, What wise man..But must confesse that fortunes swinge is more Ore that profession, then all kinds else Of life pursu'd by man? 1636― Gt. Dk. Florence ii. ii, This is the man that carries The sway, and swinge of the Court.
†2. Freedom of action, free scope, licence; liberty to follow one's inclinations: = swing n.2 5. Phr. to have or take one's swinge, to give (a person or thing, oneself) swinge. Obs.
1542Boorde Dyetary xvi. (1870) 273 Sensuall appetyde muste haue a swynge, all these thinges notwithstandynge. 1545R. Ascham Toxoph. i. (Arb.) 52 Shooting hath two Tutours..the one called Daye light, ye other Open place, whyche .ii. keepe shooting from euyl companye, and suffers it not to haue to much swinge. 1575–85Sandys Serm. viii. §10 Youth they say must haue his swinge. 1597Beard Theatre God's Judgem. (1612) 272 They giue the full swindge to their bold and violent affections. 1598Chapman Iliad v. [ix.] 617 For whose sake I will lose the raynes, and giue mine anger swindge. 1615― Odyss. xxii. 597 That then⁓streight bed Is sowre to that swindge, in which she was bred. 1622Fletcher Span. Cur. v. ii, I'le have my swindge upon thee. 1631Chapman Cæsar & Pompey ii. i. 12, I had able means, And spent all in the swinge of lewd affections. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. xxiii. (1713) 233 By preferring the full swindge of the Animal life before the orderly Pleasures..of the Divine. 1675Crowne Country Wit i. i, I am perswaded the bounds of his land have been the utmost extent of his travel; except since his Parents death he has given himself a swinge to some race or fair. 1687tr. Sallust (1692) 8 A savage sort of People, living at their full swinge of Liberty and Licence.
†b. of, at one's own swinge: said of a person being entirely his own master. Obs.
1536St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 322 That he shulde rule of his owne swynge, so as noon of us durste advise him to the contrary. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 290 In his lustie yeares, he is at his own swinge. [1663Heath Flagellum 4 His Father dying soon after and leaving him to his swinge.]
†3. Impetus, impulse, driving power (of something non-physical, as passion, will, etc.); inclination; drift, tendency. of one's own swinge: of one's own free choice, of one's own accord, spontaneously. Obs.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII, 36 They of their awne swynge pacefied them selfes, and beganne to turne to their..naturall liege lorde. 1548Udall, etc. Erasmus Par. Matt. iii. 28 He rushed not furth of his owne swinge to preache. 1552R. Hutchinson Declar. Christes Supper iii. (1560) K j b, As long as they folowe the wyld swynge of their youth. a1618Sylvester Christian's Conflict 87 The swinge of custome (whirl-wind-like) Rapting my Passion. 1621Hakewill David's Vow 105 He goes on with an high hand and a stiffe neck, and is carried with a swinge, as a ship under full saile. 1651Culpepper Astrol. Judgem. Dis. (1658) 80 He follows the swinge of the times. a1677Barrow Serm. (1687) I. xi. 144 Ascribing them to the mere conduct and agency of visible causes, hurried by a necessary swindge. 1686tr. Chardin's Coronat. Solyman 86 The great ones following his example give themselves the liberty to follow the swinge of their own Arbitrary Wills. 1804Jebb in Knox & Jebb's Corr. (1834) I. 95 What greater punishment..can there be, than to be given up, by God, to the swinge of a man's own lusts?
†4. Impetus (of motion); impetuous or forcible sweeping or whirling movement. Obs.
1583H. Howard Defensative L iij b, As we see that barges which are forced by the strength of oares, haue a kinde of gate or swinge when the stroke of dooth cease. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe Wks. 1905 III. 164 In the swindge of his trident he constituted two Lord admirals ouer the whole nauy of England. a1600Deloney Canaans Calamitie 915 The Romaines full of hot reuenge..Troopt to the Temple, with a mighty swinge. c1600Distracted Emp. iv. i. in Bullen O. Pl. (1884) III. 235 A thynks me fallinge & avoyds my Swindge. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. To Rdr. a iij b, Whirled on by the swindge and rapt of the one [wheel]. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal (1673) 247 The swindge or circling motion of the arm in shaking the sistrum. 1696Alsop God in Mount 9 They have been heaving with all their strength to roll it away, and when they have hoped they were just turning it over,..it has come upon them with the greater swinge.
†5. The lashing (of a tail). Obs. rare.
1627May Lucan i. 225 When his Tailes swindge has made him hot,..He [sc. a lion] roares from his wide throat. c1640Waller Battle of Summer Isl. iii. 22 The shallow water doth her force infringe, And renders vain her tail's impetuous swinge.
b. gen. A stroke, blow. dial.
1823Moor Suffolk Words.
6. A leash for hounds. Obs. exc. dial.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Yorks. iii. (1662) 221 A Gentleman of this County, being to let slip a brace of Grey-hounds, to run for a great wager, so held them in the Swinge, that they were more likely to strangle themselves then kill the Hare. 1895E. Angl. Gloss., Swinge, a leash or couple by which hounds are led.
▪ II. swinge, n.2
[f. swinge v.2]
A singe.
App. inferred in Dicts. erron. from the foll. passage, where the word is swing n.2 8.
a1619Fletcher, etc. Q. Corinth i. i, If to feed Vultures here, after the halter Has done his part, or if there be a Hell, To take a swinge or two there [etc.].
▪ III. swinge, v.1|swɪndʒ|
Also 6 swynge, 6–8 swindge; pres. pple. and gerund 6–8 swindging, 7 swindgeing, 6– swinging, 7– swingeing.
[Later form of ME. swenge.]
1. trans. To beat, flog, whip, thrash. † Also with off. arch. or dial.
a1553Udall Royster D. ii. iv. (Arb.) 38, I will rather haue my cote twentie times swinged, Than on the naughtie wag not to be auenged. 1595Shakes. John ii. i. 288 Saint George that swindg'd the Dragon. 1596― Tam. Shr. v. ii. 104 If they denie to come, Swinge me them soundly forth vnto their husbands. 1606Holland Sueton. 222 Hee was roiotous, wild and wanton: in so much as his father swindged him well and soundly for it. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. iii. xiii. 85 These sad Ceremonies they also used in Peru, where they swinged themselves with stinging Nettles, and struck themselves over the shoulders with hard stones. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, I Swing'd him off, I lay'd on and beat him well-favoredly. 1764Foote Mayor of G. 1, I would so swinge and leather my lambkin. 1786Burns The Ordination xi, See, see auld Orthodoxy's faes She's swingein thro' the city. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xi, We have swinged them as far as the Abbey-Gate. 1888Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta II. 232, I swinged him soundly in a moment and made all his back smart.
†b. fig. To chastise, castigate; to pay out, serve out. Obs.
1560T. Wilson Rhet. Prol., Hauyng been thus swinged, and restrained of libertie. 1636Wentworth in Carte Ormonde (1735) III. 5 The proof was once clear,..and he a spirit that will deserve well to be swinged into the knowledge of himself and the duty he owes the state. 1690Dryden Amphitryon i. ii, Jupiter can swinge you off, if you swear by him, and are forsworn. 1693J. Dryden in Dryden's Juvenal xiv. (1697) 349 This very Rev'rend Leacher..swinges his own Vices in his Son. 1710Dublin Examiner 26 Dec., The Printer..brought along with him a Bundle of those Papers, which in the Phrase of Whig Coffee-houses have Swinged off the Examiner. 1711Swift Jrnl. to Stella 16 Oct., One Boyer, a French dog, has abused me..: the Secretary promises me to swinge him.
†c. ? To pillory (fig.). Obs. rare—1.
1546Supplic. Poore Commons (E.E.T.S.) 69 When thei katch any thyng that soundeth to the contrary, it shall not escape so, we warrant you. It shalbe swynged in euery pulpyt wyth, this is the Kynges gratious wyll.
†d. To bear heavily upon. Obs. rare.
1681Prideaux Lett. (Camden) 96 The innkeeper..swinged them in their reckoneing most abominably, makeing them pay five times the price for every thing they had.
†e. slang. = swive. See also quot. a 1700.
1622Fletcher Beggar's Bush iii. i, Give her cold jelly To take up her belly, And once a day swinge her again. 1688Miége Gt. Fr. Dict., To Swinge off,..il se dit aussi dans un Sens Venerien. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, He is Swing'd off, damnably Clapt.
†2. To drink up or off, ‘toss off’. Obs. slang.
a1529Skelton E. Rummyng 568 She swynged vp a quarte At ones. 1570B. Googe Pop. Kingd. iv. 48 And cleane they swinge of euery cup. 1649J. Taylor (Water P.) Wand. West 7 Mine Host swing'd off halfe a pot to me.
3. To cut down with a scythe. dial.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 117 Swinge brembles & brakes. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Swinge, 2. To cut the nettles, &c. from hedges to make them neat.
†4. To brandish, flourish; to lash (the tail, or something with the tail). Also transf. Obs.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. vi. 410 The Lion..often swindging, with his sinnewy train, Somtimes his sides, somtimes the dusty plain. Ibid. vii. 507 Th' Air corrupteth soon, except With sundry winds it oft be swing'd and swept. 1607[B. Barnes] Devil's Charter v. iv. L j b, When I was a Scholler in Padua, faith then I could haue swingd a sword and a buckler. 1629Milton Nativity xviii, Th' old Dragon under ground..Swindges the scaly Horrour of his foulded tail.
†5. To bear sway over. (After swinge n.1 1.)
1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 12 Had not affection otherwhiles swinged their reason, where reason should haue swayed their affection.
†6. To whirl round (e.g. a wheel). Obs.
1548Elyot, Roto,..to tourne a thyng lyke a whiele, to swynge about. 1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer iii. Ff iij, Like a whiele that longe swynged about with violence [etc.]. 1612Shelton Quix. i. viii. 50 Their Sayles [sc. of windmills], that are swinged about by the Winde. 1677Miége Dict. Eng. Fr., Swinged, or turned about, roué, tourné en rouë.
†7. intr. To have free scope or course, to indulge one's inclination. (After swinge n.1 2.)
1613Chapman Rev. Bussy d'Ambois i. B j, To what will this declining Kingdome turne, Swindging in euery license [etc.]?
†8. In combination with a noun in obj. relation, as swinge-bow (see 1 e); swinge-buckler = swashbuckler. Obs.
1579J. Northbrooke Dicing 25 b, If these and such like lawes were executed iustlie..there would not be manie..Blasphemers, & Swinge Buckelers. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 24 You had not foure such Swindge-bucklers in all the Innes of Court againe. 1675Cotton Burlesque upon B. 83 Is the old Letcher A Swinge-bow of so high renown, A Wench can't sooner take him down?
▪ IV. swinge, v.2 Now dial. and U.S.|swɪndʒ|
[? Alteration of singe, perh. influenced by sweal.]
trans. To singe, scorch.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. xi. 26 The scorching flame sore swinged all his face. 1600Surflet Country Farm i. xxiv. 150 To haue his haire swinged off with straw. 1790Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2), Swinge, to singe. North. 1844Maj. Jones's Courtship 185 (Bartlett), I don't think I ever did see things jest sprawled out and swinged up so with the sun before. [In various dial. glossaries, northern, west-midland, and south-western.] |