Swich things as that I know I will declare.
Chaucer.
||Swie*te"ni*a (?), n. [NL. Named after Gerard Van Sweiten, physician
||to Maria Theresa of Austria.] (Bot.) A genus of meliaceous trees
||consisting of one species (Sweitenia Mahogoni), the mahogany tree.
Swift (?), a. [Compar. Swifter (?); superl. Swiftest.] [AS. swift; akin
to swpan to sweep, swipu a whip; cf. swfan to move quickly, to revolve.
See Swoop, v. i., and cf. Swivel, Squib.] 1. Moving a great distance in
a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick;
speedy; prompt.
My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak,
slow to wrath.
James i. 19.
Swift of dispatch and easy of access.
Dryden.
And bring upon themselves swift destruction.