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In some senses, dwale is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
all, deadly, poisonous
VERB + DWALE
alluring, parts
noun
Belladonna or a similar soporific plant.
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 —
All parts of the dwale are poisonous, said to resemble snake bite, but the roots are said to be four or five times as virulent as the rest of the plant.
A sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna.
The authors studied the ingredients and method of administration to try to ascertain whether dwale was effective, and they found it certainly could have worked.
'That is all?' Payne askes. 'You need no salve? No dwale?'
A torpor.
He's in a dwale, a dead sleep; a common expression in the North of England.
I stayed up there in a dwale – not seeing, not even thinking – until suddenly the wind got up and its chill woke me.
A bugbear.
Consume us; shake the darkness like a tree, And fill the night with mischiefs, — blights and dwales, Weevils, and rots, and cankers!
Tickle under their chins microscopical djinns or tease geloscopical dwales who live in The Tree That Can Never Be and fish for chocolate whales?
verb
To mutter deliriously.
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 —
WiktionaryAll parts of the dwale are poisonous, said to resemble snake bite, but the roots are said to be four or five times as virulent as the rest of the plant.
WiktionaryIt was not bog myrtle at all, it was dwale.
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In some senses, dwale is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.