sweal
8 points
English
5 letters
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Definitions
To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame. [Written also swale.] Sir W. Scott.
To singe; to scorch; to swale; as, to sweal a pig by singeing off the hair.
Definition: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University.