Defn: A protuberance on the leg of a horse.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A swimming bird; one of the natatores. Little swimmer (Zoöl.), a phalarope.
SWIMMERET
Swim"mer*et, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.
SWIMMING
Swim"ming, a.
1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.
2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes. Swimming bell (Zoöl.), a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora. — Swimming crab (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of marine crabs, as those of the family Protunidæ, which have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs flattened so as to serve as fins.
SWIMMING
Swim"ming, n.
Defn: The act of one who swims.