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SWINDLER

Volume 18 · 52 words · 1797 Edition

word which has been lately adopted into the English language, derived from the German word Schwindel, "to cheat." Swindling has now become so common in several of the great towns of this country, that it is unfortunately too well known to require any description.

Swine, in zoology. See Sus.

Swine-Stone. See Swine-Stone.