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† Swelth1. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. † Swelth1 Chiefly Sc. Obs. Also 4 suelth, swelt, 6 sweltht, swelf, 7 suald. [Representing or related to OE. ʓeswelʓ, swelh or svelgr SWALLOW sb.2]

1   1.  A whirlpool.

2 c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, xxxiv. (Pelagia), 181. Men but nombre als haf I Gert synk in-to þe suelth of syne.

3 c. 1400.  Sc. Trojan War (Horstm.), II. 2273. That swelt half of my schippis has Suellede ande all þat in þaime was.

4 c. 1460.  Promp. Parv. (Winch.), 445. Swelth of a water or grownd, vorago.

5 c. 1500.  Lancelot, 1317. Thi schip, that goth apone the stormy vall, Ney of thi careldis in the swelf it fall.

6 1513.  Douglas, Æneis, I. iii. 42. Thryise thair the fluide quhirlit about round, The sowcand sweltht. Ibid., iv. 73. The ragis of Silla that huge swelth in the se Ȝe haue eschapit.

7 1601.  Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 391/2. Passand … be the eist syid of ane arne or aller bus in the lin or suald of Schirestoun.

8   2.  Foul or troubled water.

9   Prob. due to misapprehension of a passage in G. Douglas.

10 1563.  Mirr. Mag., Induct., xxxi. A deadly gulfe where nought but rubbishe growes, With fowle blacke swelth in thickned lumpes yt lyes. Ibid., lxix. Rude Acheron,… That boyles and bubs vp swelth as blacke as hell.

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