dwale
/dweɪl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To mutter deliriously.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "It was not bog myrtle at all, it was dwale."
- "Monkshood and dwale belong to Hecate, the moon goddess of the witches, and by their use are witches able to fly."
- "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?'"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: dwale, dwala, dvala, dwalen, dwalian, *dwalōną
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
or absent-minded state