XSWAL'LOW-WORT, n. A plant of the genus Asclepias; hirundinaria. It grows in the southern part of Europe, and is said to have been successfully used as a medicine, chiefly in dropsical cases. The African swallow-wort is of the genus Stapelia.
, n. The gullet or oesophagus; the throat.
1. Voracity.
2. As much as is swallowed at once.