Hypertext Webster Gateway: "swale"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sweal \Sweal\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Swealed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Swealing}.] [OE. swelen to burn, AS. swelan; akin to G.
schwelen to burn slowly, schw["u]l sultry, Icel. sv[ae]la a
thick smoke.]
To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste
away without feeding the flame. [Written also {swale}.] --Sir
W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Swale \Swale\, n. [Cf. Icel. svalr cool, svala to cool.]
A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land;
a moor; a fen. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Swale \Swale\, v. i. & t.
To melt and waste away; to singe. See {Sweal}, v.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Swale \Swale\, n.
A gutter in a candle. [Prov. Eng.]
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