sweal, sweel /swēl/, swale or swayl /swāl/ (dialect)

1. To scorch
2. To singe
3. To roast in the skin
4. To burn off (eg heather and gorse, or soot in a chimney)
5. To cause (a candle) to gutter
6. To waste away

1. To be burning hot
2. (of a candle) to gutter

swealˈing, swalˈing or swaylˈing noun and adjective

• bear-lead
• bear-leading
• bear-leads
• bear-led
• bear market
• bear markets
• bear out
• bear pit
• bear pits
• bears
• bear's-breech
• bear's-ear
• bear's-foot
• bearskin
• bearskins
• bear up
• bear up for
• bearward
• bearwards
• bear with
• bear witness
• be as good as one's word
• be a sheet in the wind's eye
• beast
• beast fable