† swalmn.
Obsolete.
1. Swelling.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [noun]
swalm?c1225
bolninga1340
swelling1377
blowinga1398
tumefaction1598
swelth1631
turgency1650
tumidity1828
lumping1851
nodulation1862
nodularity1948
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 201 Dring þenne atterlaðe berien & drif þet swalm [a1250 Nero swel] aȝeinward fromward þeheorte.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 45 I sall..me assuage of the swalme that suellit wes gret.
a1583 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 336 (Tullibardine) The stane worme, þe ringworme, not slaiking of swame.
2. (An attack of) faintness or sickness. (Cf. sweam n.)
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > bout or attack of
onfalleOE
cothec1000
bitc1175
accessc1300
attacha1400
shota1400
swalma1400
storm1540
excess?1541
accession1565
qualm1565
oncome1570
grasha1610
attachment1625
ingruence1635
turn1653
attack1665
fit1667
surprise1670
drow1727
tossa1732
irruption1732
sick1808
tout1808
whither1808
spell1856
go1867
whip1891
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20758 ‘Ga to þaa men þat lijs in sualm,’ He said, ‘and rine on þam wit it.’
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxiii. Proeme 146 Women who being newly conceived and breeding child, have many swawms come over their heart.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiv. vi. 255 A cold swawme of feare that quickly came over his heart.
Derivatives
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > lose consciousness [verb (intransitive)] > faint or swoon
swotherc1000
swowa1250
swoonc1290
sweltc1330
trance1340
to fall on, in swowa1375
swapc1386
sound1393
dwelea1400
swaya1400
faintc1440
owmawt1440
swalmc1440
sweamc1440
syncopize1490
dwalm?a1513
swarf1513
swound1530
cothe1567
sweb1599
to go away1655
to die away1707
go1768
sink1769
sile1790
to pass out1915
to black out1935
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > deprive of consciousness [verb (transitive)] > cause to faint
swalmc1440
swarf1813
c1440 Bone Flor. 770 Hur fadur nere hande can talme, Soche a sweme hys harte can swalme.
a1583 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 311 (Tullibardine) With swaming to swelt.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [noun] > fainting or swooning
swimeOE
swowingc1000
swooningc1290
swoonc1330
soundingc1380
swelteringc1440
sweltingc1460
swalming1487
swounding1570
syncopization1598
fainting1601
lipothymy1603
defection1615
dereliction1647
swebbing1668
swound1880
greyout1942
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 648 Sum ded, sum hurt, sum swownand [1489 Adv. swonand; 1616 Hart swoonning].
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