swealswalev.

/swiːl/

/sweɪl/

Forms: Old English swælan, Middle English swælen, past tense swelde, Middle English swale, Middle English swayle, (also 1800s) swele, Middle English, 1600s–1800s swaile, Middle English sweile, sweyle, 1500s swyll, (1800s swill), 1500s–1600s sweale, 1600s–1800s swail, 1700s–1800s sweel, (1800s squail, zwele, zweel, etc.), 1500s– sweal, 1600s– swale.

Etymology: Old English swǽlan weak transitive to burn, related to Old English swelan strong intransitive to burn (which may be in part also the source of this word) = (Middle) Low German swelen to singe, wither (of grass), make hay, etc. (whence German schwelen, schwälen to burn slowly without flame, North Frisian swîal to singe, East Frisian swêl to glow), Old Norse svæla to smoke out, svæla thick mist or smoke, < Germanic root swel- to be subjected to heat or slow burning (compare Old High German suilizôn to burn slowly).Other grades of the root are represented by Old English swol , swolig (compare sooly adj.), swoloþ burning, heat, Low German swôl, swûl, swôlig, swûlig oppressively hot, sultry (whence German schwül, earlier †schwul), Dutch zwoel sultry. Cognates outside Germanic are recognized in Lithuanian svìlti to scorch, svilus glowing, svilmis smell of burning, Latvian svilt to scorch.

Now dialect.

a. transitive. To consume with fire, burn; to set fire to (e.g. gorse, etc., soot in a chimney); to singe, scorch; locally, to singe (a hog), (in Ireland) to roast (a sheep) whole in its skin.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or consume by fire [verb (transitive)]

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to burn upc1175

forswithea1250

to-brenna1300

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scorchc1475

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combure1570

toast1577

flame1582

embroil1667

flagrate1756

underburn1841

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook [verb (transitive)] > singe

singec1000

sweal1543

razzle1855

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > subject or expose to heat or fire [verb (transitive)] > to superficial burning

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OE Beowulf 3041 Gledum beswæled.]

c1000 Lambeth Ps. xxv[i]. 2 Onæl..vel swæl vel bærn lendenu..mine.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3064 Berneð heore halles..& swaleð heore bures.

c1275 Laȝamon Brut 25594 Þo com þar..a bernen[d]e drake, borwes he swelde.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 325 He..sweled of his berd heer with a firy cole.

1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 143 He..schewed hym his heed þat was i-sweled and i-scalded.

c1410 Lanterne of Liȝt ix. 78 Þat lust of þe fleische mai be sweilid from coueiting of yuel [L. ut conbusta caro non concupiscat malum].

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 2349 For to swele his vlyes He stert in-to the bern, & aftir stre he hies.

1543 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) III. 444 To storke [? scorke] or swyll the eares of wheate, and eate the same.

1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos xii. Ll 4 His huge beard brent a light, And swealed caused a stinke.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 123 Summers-guide, the Crab comes..To bring vs yeerly in his starrie shell, Many long daies the shaggie Earth to swele.

1623 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (rev. ed.) iii. sig. F1 If you must vse many [hives], then, hauing wet the skirts with a cloth, singe or sweale the in-side.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 322 To Sweal a Hog, to singe a Hog.

1795 Trans. Soc. Arts 13 183 The gorse..is used for sweeling ships [i.e. applying a torch to the greased and tarred bottom that the fat, etc. may penetrate].

1800 J. Hurdis Favorite Village ii. 52 To see the thunder-bolt with fiery arm Arrest the mountain top and sweal his brow.

1832 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. (ed. 2) 570 In order to have good bacon the hair should be sweeled off—not scalded.

1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk II. 88 The smell and the crackling noise..occasioned by ‘swilling’, or scorching it [sc. a pig].

1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Sweal, to burn the soot out of the chimney.

1883 Standard 12 Sept. 2/2 ‘Sweel’ is an odd Sussex word, meaning to singe linen.

1911 Daily News 22 Dec. 12/1 Strong overgrown heather which..would have to be torched or ‘swaled’ before young plants..could take possession of that area.

b. To cause (grass, etc.) to dry or wither.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] > wither

shrenchc950

sear1412

to sear up1430

wither1555

sweal1881

1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) (at cited word) ‘It’—the hay—‘is swaled enow, an' way'll hack it in’.

1896 W. W. Skeat & T. Hallam Pegge's Two Coll. Derbicisms (at cited word) The wind sweals the grass; not only checks its growth, but cuts off and consumes its blade.

2. intransitive. To burn with fire, or as a fire; to be consumed with fire; to be scorched; to be burning hot.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or be on fire [verb (intransitive)]

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burnc1000

swealc1275

combure1599

to go up1716

swither1865

OE Beowulf 2713 Sio wund ongon..swelan ond swellan.

OE Crist I (Gr.) 987 Swa ær wæter fleowan, flodas afysde, þonne on fyrbaðe swelað sæfiscas.]

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8094 Þe castel gon to bernen bures þer slælden [read swælden].

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rev. xvi. 9 Men swayleden [a1425 L.V. swaliden; L. æstuaverunt] with greet heete.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xiii. 6 Sothely the sunne sprung vp, thei swaliden, or brenden for hete.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Jer. xx. 9 The word of the Lord was maad, as fier swalynge [1382 gretly hetende] in myn herte.

1811 R. Willan in Archaeologia 17 160 (W. Riding Words) Sweal, to blaze, to burn away rapidly.

1861 E. Brown Seaman's Narr. xxii. 251 The flesh swealed with the heat of the irons, and a blue steamy smoke arose.

1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. II (at cited word) A fire or anything else is said to sweel when it burns fiercely.

3. Of a candle: To melt away; to gutter. Also said of the tallow or wax. Hence figurative to waste away.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [verb (intransitive)] > gutter

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gouta1400

sweal1653

gutter1706

1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix (1713) 80 That they can burn thus with their heads downwards, and not presently sweal out and be extinguished, as our ordinary Candles are.

1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ To Sweal away, eliquescere instar candelæ, vox agro Linc. usitatissima.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality v, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 104 Mind ye dinna let the candle sweal as ye gang alang the wainscot parlour.

1827 T. Wilson Pitman's Pay ii. iii The unsnuff'd lights are now burnt low, And dimly in their sockets sweeling.

1858 F. Faber tr. D. Bartoli & J. P. Maffei Life Xavier 396 The wax which had swealed from it [sc. a candle].

1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. viii. 280 The soil is half pitch, half brown earth, among which the pitch sweals in and out, as tallow sweals from a candle.

1881 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Mar. 10 The candles they have to light them to their rooms are swaling.

1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Squail..(4) Of a candle, to gutter.

4. transitive. To cause to waste away like a guttering candle. Chiefly figurative.

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > affect detrimentally

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > waste

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forsumea1510

to cast away1530

to throw away1561

embezzle1578

squander1593

palter1595

profuse1611

squander1611

ravel1614

sport1622

to fool away1628

to stream out1628

to fribble away1633

sweal1655

frisk1665

to fiddle away1667

wantonize1673

slattera1681

swattle1681

drivel1686

swatter1690

to muddle away1707

squander1717

sot1746

slattern1747

meisle1808

fritter1820

waster1821

slobber1837

to cut to waste1863

fringe1863

potter1883

putter1911

profligate1938

to piddle away1942

haemorrhage1978

spaff2002

the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [verb (transitive)] > cause to waste away

sweal1862

1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 303 Lest this sin of pride (as a thief in the candle) should swaile out thy joy.

1662 H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum 144 An intemperate man is one that, like some candles, sweals away his life.

1673 True Notion Worship of God 65 The wasting and swealing out the Lights of the Church.

a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1692) III. i. 615 Immoderate Sorrows..swale [our life].

1697 W. Congreve Mourning Bride iii. i. 35 Our Hymenial Torch..dash'd with Rain from Eyes, and swail'd with Sighs.

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. i. i. 26/1 Reckoning..the Time not spent in Study, for the most part, sweel'd away.

1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood (at cited word) Mind an' doan't sweal t'cannel.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sweal
释义	swealswalen. /swiːl//sweɪl/ Forms: Also swaile, sweel. Etymology: < sweal v. dialect. A blaze, flame; the guttering of a candle. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > guttering blearing1705 sweal1781 guttering1784 slut1861 1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. (E.D.S.) Swaile, Sweal, a flame. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Sweel..the melting of a lighted candle in a draught. 1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milnar Gloss. Lancashire Dial. Sweel, a great blaze. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2020). swealswalev. /swiːl//sweɪl/ Forms: Old English swælan, Middle English swælen, past tense swelde, Middle English swale, Middle English swayle, (also 1800s) swele, Middle English, 1600s–1800s swaile, Middle English sweile, sweyle, 1500s swyll, (1800s swill), 1500s–1600s sweale, 1600s–1800s swail, 1700s–1800s sweel, (1800s squail, zwele, zweel, etc.), 1500s– sweal, 1600s– swale. Etymology: Old English swǽlan weak transitive to burn, related to Old English swelan strong intransitive to burn (which may be in part also the source of this word) = (Middle) Low German swelen to singe, wither (of grass), make hay, etc. (whence German schwelen, schwälen to burn slowly without flame, North Frisian swîal to singe, East Frisian swêl to glow), Old Norse svæla to smoke out, svæla thick mist or smoke, < Germanic root swel- to be subjected to heat or slow burning (compare Old High German suilizôn to burn slowly).Other grades of the root are represented by Old English swol , swolig (compare sooly adj.), swoloþ burning, heat, Low German swôl, swûl, swôlig, swûlig oppressively hot, sultry (whence German schwül, earlier †schwul), Dutch zwoel sultry. Cognates outside Germanic are recognized in Lithuanian svìlti to scorch, svilus glowing, svilmis smell of burning, Latvian svilt to scorch. Now dialect. 1. a. transitive. To consume with fire, burn; to set fire to (e.g. gorse, etc., soot in a chimney); to singe, scorch; locally, to singe (a hog), (in Ireland) to roast (a sheep) whole in its skin. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or consume by fire [verb (transitive)] burna1000 forburnOE forswealc1000 swealc1000 to burn upc1175 forswithea1250 to-brenna1300 singea1400 scorchc1475 combust1483 combure1570 toast1577 flame1582 embroil1667 flagrate1756 underburn1841 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook [verb (transitive)] > singe singec1000 sweal1543 razzle1855 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > subject or expose to heat or fire [verb (transitive)] > to superficial burning singec1000 besinge1340 sing1543 singea1616 sweal1669 OE Beowulf 3041 Gledum beswæled.] c1000 Lambeth Ps. xxv[i]. 2 Onæl..vel swæl vel bærn lendenu..mine. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3064 Berneð heore halles..& swaleð heore bures. c1275 Laȝamon Brut 25594 Þo com þar..a bernen[d]e drake, borwes he swelde. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 325 He..sweled of his berd heer with a firy cole. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 143 He..schewed hym his heed þat was i-sweled and i-scalded. c1410 Lanterne of Liȝt ix. 78 Þat lust of þe fleische mai be sweilid from coueiting of yuel [L. ut conbusta caro non concupiscat malum]. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 2349 For to swele his vlyes He stert in-to the bern, & aftir stre he hies. 1543 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) III. 444 To storke [? scorke] or swyll the eares of wheate, and eate the same. 1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos xii. Ll 4 His huge beard brent a light, And swealed caused a stinke. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 123 Summers-guide, the Crab comes..To bring vs yeerly in his starrie shell, Many long daies the shaggie Earth to swele. 1623 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (rev. ed.) iii. sig. F1 If you must vse many [hives], then, hauing wet the skirts with a cloth, singe or sweale the in-side. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 322 To Sweal a Hog, to singe a Hog. 1795 Trans. Soc. Arts 13 183 The gorse..is used for sweeling ships [i.e. applying a torch to the greased and tarred bottom that the fat, etc. may penetrate]. 1800 J. Hurdis Favorite Village ii. 52 To see the thunder-bolt with fiery arm Arrest the mountain top and sweal his brow. 1832 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. (ed. 2) 570 In order to have good bacon the hair should be sweeled off—not scalded. 1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk II. 88 The smell and the crackling noise..occasioned by ‘swilling’, or scorching it [sc. a pig]. 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Sweal, to burn the soot out of the chimney. 1883 Standard 12 Sept. 2/2 ‘Sweel’ is an odd Sussex word, meaning to singe linen. 1911 Daily News 22 Dec. 12/1 Strong overgrown heather which..would have to be torched or ‘swaled’ before young plants..could take possession of that area. b. To cause (grass, etc.) to dry or wither. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] > wither shrenchc950 sear1412 to sear up1430 wither1555 sweal1881 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) (at cited word) ‘It’—the hay—‘is swaled enow, an' way'll hack it in’. 1896 W. W. Skeat & T. Hallam Pegge's Two Coll. Derbicisms (at cited word) The wind sweals the grass; not only checks its growth, but cuts off and consumes its blade. 2. intransitive. To burn with fire, or as a fire; to be consumed with fire; to be scorched; to be burning hot. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or be on fire [verb (intransitive)] forburnc893 burnc1000 swealc1275 combure1599 to go up1716 swither1865 OE Beowulf 2713 Sio wund ongon..swelan ond swellan. OE Crist I (Gr.) 987 Swa ær wæter fleowan, flodas afysde, þonne on fyrbaðe swelað sæfiscas.] c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8094 Þe castel gon to bernen bures þer slælden [read swælden]. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rev. xvi. 9 Men swayleden [a1425 L.V. swaliden; L. æstuaverunt] with greet heete. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xiii. 6 Sothely the sunne sprung vp, thei swaliden, or brenden for hete. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Jer. xx. 9 The word of the Lord was maad, as fier swalynge [1382 gretly hetende] in myn herte. 1811 R. Willan in Archaeologia 17 160 (W. Riding Words) Sweal, to blaze, to burn away rapidly. 1861 E. Brown Seaman's Narr. xxii. 251 The flesh swealed with the heat of the irons, and a blue steamy smoke arose. 1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. II (at cited word) A fire or anything else is said to sweel when it burns fiercely. 3. Of a candle: To melt away; to gutter. Also said of the tallow or wax. Hence figurative to waste away. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [verb (intransitive)] > gutter clome1393 gouta1400 sweal1653 gutter1706 1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix (1713) 80 That they can burn thus with their heads downwards, and not presently sweal out and be extinguished, as our ordinary Candles are. 1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ To Sweal away, eliquescere instar candelæ, vox agro Linc. usitatissima. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality v, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 104 Mind ye dinna let the candle sweal as ye gang alang the wainscot parlour. 1827 T. Wilson Pitman's Pay ii. iii The unsnuff'd lights are now burnt low, And dimly in their sockets sweeling. 1858 F. Faber tr. D. Bartoli & J. P. Maffei Life Xavier 396 The wax which had swealed from it [sc. a candle]. 1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. viii. 280 The soil is half pitch, half brown earth, among which the pitch sweals in and out, as tallow sweals from a candle. 1881 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Mar. 10 The candles they have to light them to their rooms are swaling. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Squail..(4) Of a candle, to gutter. 4. transitive. To cause to waste away like a guttering candle. Chiefly figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > affect detrimentally atterc885 hurtc1200 marc1225 appair1297 impair1297 spilla1300 emblemishc1384 endull1395 blemishc1430 depaira1460 depravea1533 deform1533 envenom1533 vitiate1534 quail1551 impeach1563 subvert1565 craze1573 taint1573 spoil1578 endamage1579 qualify1584 stain1584 crack1590 ravish1594 interess1598 invitiate1598 corrupt1602 venom1621 depauperate1623 detriment1623 flaw1623 embase1625 ungold1637 murder1644 refract1646 depress1647 addle1652 sweal1655 butcher1659 shade1813 mess1823 puckeroo1840 untone1861 blue1880 queer1884 dick1972 forgar- the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > waste spilla1000 scatter1154 aspilla1250 rospa1325 waste1340 spend1390 consumec1425 waste1474 miswenda1500 forsumea1510 to cast away1530 to throw away1561 embezzle1578 squander1593 palter1595 profuse1611 squander1611 ravel1614 sport1622 to fool away1628 to stream out1628 to fribble away1633 sweal1655 frisk1665 to fiddle away1667 wantonize1673 slattera1681 swattle1681 drivel1686 swatter1690 to muddle away1707 squander1717 sot1746 slattern1747 meisle1808 fritter1820 waster1821 slobber1837 to cut to waste1863 fringe1863 potter1883 putter1911 profligate1938 to piddle away1942 haemorrhage1978 spaff2002 the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [verb (transitive)] > cause to waste away sweal1862 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 303 Lest this sin of pride (as a thief in the candle) should swaile out thy joy. 1662 H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum 144 An intemperate man is one that, like some candles, sweals away his life. 1673 True Notion Worship of God 65 The wasting and swealing out the Lights of the Church. a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1692) III. i. 615 Immoderate Sorrows..swale [our life]. 1697 W. Congreve Mourning Bride iii. i. 35 Our Hymenial Torch..dash'd with Rain from Eyes, and swail'd with Sighs. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. i. i. 26/1 Reckoning..the Time not spent in Study, for the most part, sweel'd away. 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood (at cited word) Mind an' doan't sweal t'cannel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1781v.c1000
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