Sweal
- v. t. 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.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.