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SWEAL
Etymology
Verb
sweal (third-person singular simple present sweals, present participle swealing, simple past and past participle swealed)
(intransitive) To burn slowly.
(intransitive) To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.
(transitive) To singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.
(transitive, dialectal) To consume with fire; burn.
(transitive, dialectal) To make disappear; cause to waste away; diminish; reduce.
Anagrams
• Swale, Wales, alews, lawes, swale, wales, weals
Source: Wiktionary
Sweal, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swealed; p. pr. & vb. n. Swealing.] Etym: [OE. swelen to burn, AS. swelan; akin to G. schwelen to burn slowly, schwül sultry, Icel. svæla a thick smoke.]
Definition: To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame. [Written also swale.] Sir W. Scott.
Sweal, v. t.
Definition: To singe; to scorch; to swale; as, to sweal a pig by singeing off the hair.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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