upswarm

English

Etymology

Verb

upswarm (third-person singular simple present upswarms, present participle upswarming, simple past and past participle upswarmed)

(transitive) To rise in a swarm.
(intransitive) To cause to rise in a swarm.
- c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
  And both against the Peace of Heauen, and him,
  Haue here vp-swarmed them.
- 1791, Homer; W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
  Such was his exhortation; they his voice
  All hearing, with close-order'd ranks direct
  Bore on the barrier, and upswarming show'd
  On the high battlement their glittering spears

References

upswarm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

warm-ups, warms up, warmups

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