Swoop

1. n. A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.
2. n. To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
3. n. To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
4. v. i. To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop.
5. v. i. To pass with pomp; to sweep.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.