10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWEAL»
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. ...
To SWEAL, v. n. To whirl, to turn round with rapidity, Berwicks. ; synon. Swirl.
Sweal, *, The act of turning round with rapidity ; often applied to the quick motion
of a fish with its tail, ibid. Isl. sveifl-a agitare; circumagere, gyrare ; as, sveijta
sverdi, ...
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A provincial glossary: with a collection of local proverbs, ...
Swad. Siliqua, a cod, a pease-swad, used metaphorically for one that isflender; a
mere swad. . N. Swache. A tally, that which is fixed to cloth sent to dye, of which
the owner keeps the other part. N. Swale. Windy, cold, bleak. N. Swale, or Sweal.
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A Vocabulary: Or, Collection of Words and Phrases, which ...
To Swaxe or Sweal. To waste or blaze away Used here in this expression only :
The candle sweats. Bay and Grose mention this as provincial in England : "
Sweal : singe. To sweal a hog. A sweal'd cat ; a cat whose hair or fur is singed off
by ...
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A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
To SWEAL, v. n. To whirl, to turn round with rapidity, Berwicks. j synon. Swirl,
Sweal, s. The act of turning round with ra. pidity ; often applied to the quick motion
of a fish with its tail, ibid. Isl. sveifl-a agi tare J circumagere, gyrare ; as, sveifia ...
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The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language ...: ...
Sweal (71. r. a (lit-Term! smiling) To swale, to singe, to / burn off the hair os a pig.
Scott. SwPTti't'd (p. from sweal) Singed. _ Svifeal'ing (p. a. from sweal) Swealing,
blazlng, in ing. _ Sweagl'ing (L from 'be Part) The act os swaltng, the act ...
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A Glossary of Provincial and Local Words Used in England
... or burn; as, to sweal a hog; a sweal'd cat, a cat whose hair or fur is singed off,
by sleeping in the ashes. SWEAL is also sometimes applied to a candle that
drozes and melts, called in Middlesex, FLARING. Ab A. S. SW/ELAN, SWA 157.
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A glossary of provincial words used in Herefordshire and ...
Sumber, s. summer. Compare Homber. To Swale, v. a. to split down or off. In
sawing the bough of a tree, you must take care lest the weight should make it
swale down the tree. Grose says, " swale or sweal, to singe or burn ; as, to sweal
a hog ...
Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 1839
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A Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words ...
G. su-arfw-a, motitari, fluctuare. To SWEAL, v. a. To swaddle, S. V. Swayl. To
8WEAL, v. n. To whirl ; to turn round with rapidity, llerwicks. Byn. Swirl. SWEAL, t.
The aet of turning round with rapidity ; often applied to the quick motion of a fish
with ...
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A provincial glossary, with a collection of local proverbs, ...
A swarth of new-mown grass or corn. North. Swatter. To scatter or waste. He
swattered away all his money. North. Swattle. To guzzle. North. Swattle. To
swattle away ; to waste. Sways. Rods or switches. Norf. Sweal. To singe. To
sweal a hog.
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A General Dictionary of Provincialisms. -London, Russel ...
To SWEAL, v. a. [Swelan, Sara] To melt. North. To SWEAL a HOG. is to burn off
the hair with lighted straw, instead of getting it off by means of hot water, which
process is called scalding a hug; the latter plan is adopted when ahog is to be
made ...
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