Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Error; delusion
- noun A sleeping-potion; a soporific.
- noun The deadly nightshade, Atropa Belladonna, which possesses stupefying or poisonous properties.
- noun In heraldry, a sable or black color.
- To mutter deliriously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The deadly nightshade (
Atropa Belladonna ), having stupefying qualities. - noun (Her.) The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures.
- noun A sleeping potion; an opiate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete a
sleeping -potion , especially one made frombelladonna - noun
belladonna itself,deadly nightshade ; or some other soporific plant - noun
error ,delusion - noun heraldry a sable or black color.
- verb To mutter deliriously
Etymologies
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Examples
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As an example of the mixture of real and fake, dwale is based on a real plant, deadly nightshade, but I took liberties with its effects.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Sarah Micklem, Part Two 2006
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Also called dwale - deriving this common name from the French word for sorrow, deuil, or the Scandinavian word, dool, for sleep or delay - deadly nightshade is a very effective poison.
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There are various recipes for dwale from the Middle Ages, and I think they generally feature hemlock, henbane, opium and various other ingredients.
Early medieval surgical knowledge Carla 2010
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I took it off and found it was made of dwale, like the wreaths the adepts had worn for the rites.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I took it off and found it was made of dwale, like the wreaths the adepts had worn for the rites.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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The adepts wore white wrappers and wreaths of dwale, which in Lambanein meant secrecy.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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The adepts wore white wrappers and wreaths of dwale, which in Lambanein meant secrecy.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I took it off and found it was made of dwale, like the wreaths the adepts had worn for the rites.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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The adepts wore white wrappers and wreaths of dwale, which in Lambanein meant secrecy.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Two of the most beautiful of these are the white convolvulus, San Graal of the hedges, and the dwale – that lurid amphora where the death's-head moth, with its weird form and wings of enchanted purples, drinks under the white light of the moon and, if it is touched, cries out like a witch in a weak, strident voice.
mollusque commented on the word dwale
Belladonna.
December 3, 2007
qms commented on the word dwale
Long battered by life's upland gale
Some shelter in shrubs of the swale.
They soothe all alarm
And dwindle to dwalm
With a dose of the peace-giving dwale.
March 2, 2015
Gammerstang commented on the word dwale
(noun) - Error, delusion; deceit; heretic, deceiver c.900-1300; related to Old English dwela, dweola, and dwala, error, heresy, madness. Dwal-kenned, heretical.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1897
January 16, 2018