English

Noun

dwale ‎(countable and uncountable, plural dwales)

1. (obsolete) a sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna
   • Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale

     To bedde goþ Aleyne and also John; / Þer nas na moore – hem nedede no dwale.

2. belladonna itself, deadly nightshade; or some other soporific plant
   • 1842, J. van Voorst, The Phytologist, p. 595.

     Beneath and around the clumps of ragged moss-grown elder and hoary stunted whitethorn (...) rise thickets of tall nettles and rank hemlock, concealing the deadly but alluring dwale —

3. error, delusion
4. (heraldry) a sable or black color.

Verb

dwale ‎(third-person singular simple present dwales, present participle dwaling, simple past and past participle dwaled)

1. To mutter deliriously

Related terms

• dwaal — a dreamy, dazed, or absent-minded state
• dwual — to be delirious

References

• dwale in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• waled
• weald, Weald

Dutch

Verb

dwale

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dwalen