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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Swealed

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Swealing

[OE.

swelen

to burn, AS.

swelan

; akin to G.

schwelen

to burn slowly,

schwül

sultry, Icel.

svaela

a thick smoke.]

To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame.

[Written also

swale

Sir W. Scott.

Verb.

To singe; to scorch; to swale;

as, to

sweal

a pig by singeing off the hair

, v.i.

To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame.

To blaze away.