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▪ I. † swey, v. Obs.
[OE. swéᵹan to make a noise, sound, move with a noise:—*swōgjan (cf. Goth. gaswōgian, ufswōgjan to sigh), cogn. w. swéᵹ, earlier swoeᵹ sound, noise = ON. sœgr:—*swōgiz, f. swōg-, root of OE. swóᵹan: see sough v.1 The form swey in quot. 13.. is either an abnormal str. pa. tense or repr. OE. swéoᵹ, pa. tense of swóᵹan.]
intr. To sound, make a sound, resound. Hence † ˈsweying vbl. n., noise; ppl. a., resounding.
c1000ælfric in Ags. Hom. (Assmann) 56 Swa þæt heora bodunge sweᵹ sweᵹde ᵹeond eall. c1000― Hom. (Th.) I. 104 Þæs Fæder stemn of heofenum hlude sweᵹde, ðus cweðende. a1240Ureisun in O.E. Hom. I. 193 Murie dreameð engles biuoren þin onsene, Pleieð, & sweieð, & singeð bitweonen. 13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 429 Þe soun of oure souerayn þen swey in his ere. 14..Langl. P. Pl. Prol. (ed. Wright) 10 As I lay and lenede, And loked on the watres, I slombred into a slepyng, It sweyed [v.rr. swiȝede, swyed, sownede, sweyued] so merrily. a1400–50Wars Alex. 5019 With a sweȝand swoȝe þis sware scho him ȝeldis. c1440York Myst. xxx. 371 Crye pece in this prese,..Bidde them swage of þer sweying.
▪ II. swey
see sway n. and v. |