swamp-mahogany

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• Swamp

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• to swamp

  To plunge into 'inextricable difficulties.--Webster. To whelm or sink as in a swamp.--Todd. The form...

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• swamp

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• swamp-broom

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• swamp-gum

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• swamp-hawk

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• swamp-hen

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• swamp-oak

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• swamp-pheasant

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• swamp-sparrow

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• logging swamp

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• swamp-pink

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• Tom Russell's mahogany

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• swamp-daisy-tree

  n. See daisy-tree. ...

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• i swamp it!

  An interjection of the same meaning as I swan! which see. Had that darn'd old vessel--that frigate ...

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