Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. i.) To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate. 2. (v. i.) To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open. 3. (v. i.) To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See Swing. 4. (n.) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide. 5. (n.) To be hanged. 6. (v. t.) To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other. 7. (v. t.) To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business. 8. (v. t.) To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter. 9. (n.) The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum. 10. (n.) Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing. 11. (n.) A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise. 12. (n.) Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion. 13. (n.) Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it. 14. (n.) Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.

Multi-Version Concordance Swing (3 Occurrences) Exodus 28:28 They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod. (WEB NIV) Exodus 39:21 They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses. (See NIV) Job 28:4 He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth. (WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV)