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.