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▪ I. † swow, swough, n. Obs.
Forms: 3 swoȝ, 4 swouȝ, swoue, swouh, sogh, 4–5 swough(e, swogh(e, swow(e, 5 swowgh, swowȝe, sowe, 6 Sc. swoch.
[app. arising from the analysis of aswough, aswow as = a swough, a swow: cf. swow pa. pple. and v.1]
1. A swoon.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 484 Til he fel dun on dedes swoȝ. 13..Sir Beues (A.) 1563 Whan he awakede of þat swouȝ, Þe tronsoun eft to him a drouȝ. c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 215 What she said more in þat swow I mai nat telle ȝow as now. a1400Leg. Rood (1871) 135 His flesch is smite wiþ deþes þarmes, And swelteþ heer in a swemly swouh [c 1425 swow]. c1400Destr. Troy 3551 He..felle to þe ground In a swyme & a swogh, as he swelt wold. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 14 Whan of his swow As a man amasyd he sodeynly dede abreyde. c1460Towneley Myst. xv. 68 As I lay in a swogh.
b. phr. to fall on, in swough: to swoon. (Cf. next.)
13..Sir Beues (A.) 1309 Terri fel þer doun and [?= an] swouȝ. c1350Will. Palerne 87 Reuliche gan he rore..& fel doun on swowe. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 4376 And thei of Troye bakward drowe; And many fel ded In sowe. c1440J. Capgrave Life St. Kath. iii. 1214 Wyth þese swete wordes sche fel in swow. a1450Le Morte Arth. 1634 Than was the quene glad I-noghe Whan she saw launcelot du lake, That nyghe for Ioy she felle in swoughe.
2. A state of sleep or trance.
c1403Clanvowe Cuckow & Night. 87, I fel in suche a slomber and a swow, Not al a-slepe, ne fully wakinge. c1440J. Capgrave Life St. Kath. iii. 649 Whan þat same Adam slepte in a swow, Oure lord oute of his syde þan made Eue. 1513Douglas æneis viii. i. 62 The profund swoch of sleip had thaim ourtayne.
▪ II. † swow, swown, pa. pple. Obs.
Forms: α. 1 ᵹeswoᵹen, 3 iswoȝe(n, 3–4 iswowe(n, ysown, swoune, 5 suoun. β. 3 isuowe, isuoȝe, 3–4 yswowe, yswoȝe, 4 isowe, ysow(e, ysowȝ, swowe, swoghe.
[OE. ᵹeswoᵹen. Cf. aswoon, aswough, aswowe.]
Fainting, in a swoon: orig. and chiefly in predicative use with fall.
c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xii. 63 [He] began to etenne; he feoll þa æt ðære forman snæde underbecc ᵹeswoᵹen. c1000― Hom. II. 356 Se læᵹ..ᵹeswoᵹen betwux ðam ofsleᵹenum. c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 196 Þæt hie syn sona ᵹeswoᵹene ᵹif hie þone mete næbben. c1205Lay. 3074 Mid þære wræððe he wes isweued þat he feol iswowen [c 1275 hi-swoȝe]. Ibid. 4516 Stille he wes iswoȝen [c 1275 iswoȝe] on his kine-stole. c1290St. Clement 173 in S. Eng. Leg. 327 Þis womman feol a-don i-swowe. 13..Sir Beues (A.) 446 Þat emperur fel swowe adoun [MS. C. yn swowne downe]. 1362Langl. P.Pl. A. v. 222 Sleuþe for serwe fel doun I-swowene. a1375Joseph Arim. 583 Whon Eualac þat sauȝ, he fel to þe grounde, And Seraphe also, and boþe lye swoune. c1380Sir Ferumb. 2497 For hungre þai fulle y-sowe. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 477 Þe kyng was astonyed, and fil doun to þe grounde as þeyȝ he were i-sowe [MS. β. a swowe; MS. γ. y-swowe]. 1390Gower Conf. III. 357 Mi dedly face pale and fade Becam, and swoune I fell to grounde. 1423Jas. I Kingis Q. lxxiii, I..lent, amaisit verily, Half sleping and half suoun.
b. as ppl. a. ? ‘Dead’ (silence).
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 243 Al stouned at his steuen..In a swoghe sylence..As al were slypped vpon slepe.
▪ III. † swow, v.1 Obs.
[f. prec.]
intr. To swoon, faint.
a1225Ancr. R. 288 Þe heorte..ȝeieð creaunt, creaunt, ase swowinde. 13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 442 Þer he swowed & slept sadly al nyȝt. 1377Langl. P.Pl. B. v. 154 Hir were leuere swowe or swelte þan suffre any peyne.
▪ IV. swow, v.2 U.S. colloq.|swaʊ|
[I swow app. = Is' vow (I shall vow); cf. swan v.2]
I swow, I declare; = swan v.2
[1790Mass. Spy 30 Dec. 1/1 In one village you will hear the phrase ‘I snore,’—in another, ‘I swowgar,’—and in another, ‘I van you, I wunt do it.’] 1844‘Jonathan Slick’ High Life N. York I. 104, I swow, Miss Miles, you look as harnsome as a full blown rose this morning. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 595, I swan, I swad, I swow, I swamp, and I vum, for I swear, and I vow.
▪ V. swow(e, swowȝ(e, swowgh(e, swowh
see sough, swough. |