2. The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
3. A part of a stream much frequented by fish. [Eng.]
{Swim bladder}, an air bladder of a fish.
{To be in the swim}, to be in a favored position; to be
associated with others in active affairs. [Colloq.]
2. To move progressively in water by means of strokes with
the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to
yonder point. --Shak.
3. To be overflowed or drenched. --Ps. vi. 6.
Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim.
--Thomson.
4. Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
[They] now swim in joy. --Milton.
5. To be filled with swimming animals. [Obs.]
[Streams] that swim full of small fishes. --Chaucer.
Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main.
--Dryden.
2. To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim
a horse across a river.
3. To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as,
to swim wheat in order to select seed.