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Webster 1913 Edition


Sweven

Swe′ven

,
Noun.
[AS.
swefen
sleep, dream; akin to
swebban
,
swefian
, to put to sleep, to kill. √176. See
Somnolent
.]
A vision seen in sleep; a dream.
[Obs.]
Wycliff (Acts ii. 17).
I defy both
sweven
and dream.
Chaucer.