Swill | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Swĭll, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SWILLED; p. pr. & vb. n. SWILLING.] [A-S. swilgan, swelgan, to swallow, devour; swilian, to wash. See SWIG and SWALLOW.]

To drink grossly or greedily; as, to swill down great quantities of liquors.
To wash; to drench. [Obs.]

As fearfully as doth a galled rock O’erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Shak. 3. To inebriate; to swell with fullness. I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers. Milton.

Swĭll, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess. South. 2. To be intoxicated. [Obs.]

Swĭll, n.

noun

n. 1. Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.

Sense 2. The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine;— called also swillings.