Swedishadj.n.

1632 (title) The Swedish Discipline, Religiovs, Civile, and Military.

1656 Act Commw. c. 20 Rates (1658) 469 Iron Amys, Spanish, Spruce, and Swethish, the Tun 16 00 00.

1738 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 594/1 Lord and Master of the Swedish Nation.

1756 F. Home Exper. Bleaching 164 There would appear..a greater difference than this, betwixt the Swedish ashes, if that is the true process.

1799 T. R. Malthus Diary 27 July (1966) 191 The son-in-law told us that a Norway lap must not go into Sweden, nor a Swedish lap come into Norway.

1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose iii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 51 The Captain..whistled a Swedish retreat.

1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) ii. 279 Swedish ship,..craïer.

1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron 130 It is not unusual to find Swedish pigs whose fracture presents a skin of..chilled iron.

1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron 233 The Lancashire Hearth or Swedish Finery.

1896 Times (Weekly ed.) 16 Feb. 126/4 A poniard..a ‘knuckle~duster,’ and a so-called Swedish knife.

1959 A. Glyn I can take it All ii. 30 ‘But you live in—’ I was going to say Helsinki, but I remembered..that she was a Swedish Finn ‘—in Helsingfors?’

1979 J. Tate tr. Martenson Death calls on Witches v. 33 Her parents were Swedish-Americans.

1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence Pref. Ep. High, Low, and Eastlandish Teutonic, together with respect vnto the dependant Danish and Swedish.

1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence vii. 195 The Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, do again differ from these, and some litle each from other.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 564/2 The Swedish is more nearly related to the Icelandic than either the Danish or Norwegian.

1841 R. G. Latham Eng. Lang. 13 In Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian the form is [etc.].

1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 109 Alsike,..sometimes called Swedish clover, is often grown instead of the red varieties.

1916 J. Lewis Swedish Drill Illustr. 3 A Swedish Drill lesson.

1912 ‘Saki’ Unbearable Bassington vii. 124 A sporting cat..watching the Swedish exercises of a well-spent..mouse.

1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xi. 123 If she had knocked off starchy foods and done Swedish exercises for a bit, she might have been quite tolerable.

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 145 Staves with iron pikes at both ends (commonly called Swedish feathers).

1786 F. Grose Mil. Antiq. I. 165 Rests thus armed [with spikes, etc.], were called swines or Sweedish feathers, and were contrivances preceding the use of the bayonet.

1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose ii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 181 I was often obliged to run my head against my old acquaintances, the Swedish feathers, whilk your honour must conceive to be double-pointed stakes, shod with iron at each end, and planted before the squad of pikes to prevent an infall of the cavalry.

1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate i A many-buttoned, tawny Swedish glove.

1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Swedish gymnastics, a system of exercises..in which active and passive movements are combined with massage.

1899 tr. Wide's Handbk. Med. Gymnastics Pref. p. v The whole civilized world..honours not only the master but also the land to which he [sc. P. H. Ling] belonged by its general adoption of the term ‘Swedish Gymnastics’.

1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 Apr. 5/2 (advt.) Swedish Massage, Medical Sick-Gymnastic, Electric Vibrations... Above treatments highly recommended by leading physicians.

1975 C. Young Massage ii. 16 In the beginning of the nineteenth century a Swedish fencing master, Peter Henrik Ling, introduced a system of movement that consisted of massage and exercises... This method..became the basis for..Swedish massage.

1911 G. B. Shaw Doctor's Dilemma Pref. p. xci Add to the newly triumphant homeopathist and the opsonist that other remarkable innovator, the Swedish masseur.

1966 J. Mitford in McCall's Mar. 190/2 A splendid Swedish masseuse..rubs you all over with cream.

1948 A. H. Rutt Home Furnishing (ed. 2) xiii. 217 Swedish Modern is a favorite style which successfully combines native, Classical, Empire, and Modern ideas.

1958 ‘S. Marlowe’ Second Longest Night iii. 26 The living-room was Swedish modern..with black lacquered pieces and high-grained white ash.

1970 D. Bagley Running Blind vii. 156 The room was decorated in that generalized style known as Swedish Modern.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 605 Galvanism, shampooing and Swedish movements.

1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 235 The Swedish Nightingale (Daulias philomela) does not occur in Great Britain.

1884 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XVII. 499/1 The Redwing, strangely enough, has been often spoken of as the ‘Swedish Nightingale’.

c1791 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 761/1 The ruta baga, or Swedish turnip, is a plant from which great expectations have been formed.

1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 466 Swedish Work, a kind of weaving much practised in Sweden... It is worked in a small frame, shaped like a comb, and with two sets of threads to form the woof, while the warp is made by a thread wound upon a very thin shuttle.