swaying

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SWA'YING, participle present tense Wielding; causing to lean; biasing; ruling. SWA'YING, noun swaying of the back, among beasts, is a kind of lumbago, caused by a fall or by being overloaded.
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