[{"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to splash, as things in water, or as water does:Waves were swashing against the piers.", "to dash around, as things in violent motion.", "to swagger."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to dash or cast violently, especially to dash (water or other liquid) around, down, etc."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the surging or dashing, sometimes violent, of water, waves, etc.", "the sound made by such dashing:the thunderous swash of the waves.", "the ground over which water washes.", "Chiefly Southeastern U.S.a channel of water through or behind a sandbank.", "Printing.an extending ornamental flourish, as on letters of certain fonts of italic or cursive type."]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["Printing.noting or pertaining to a character having a swash:a swash letter."]}]