Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Error; delusion.
- n. A sleeping-potion; a soporific.
- n. The deadly nightshade, Atropa Belladonna, which possesses stupefying or poisonous properties.
- n. In heraldry, a sable or black color.
- To mutter deliriously.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete a sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna
- n. belladonna itself, deadly nightshade; or some other soporific plant
- n. error, delusion
- n. heraldry a sable or black color.
- v. To mutter deliriously
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities.
- n. (Her.) The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures.
- n. A sleeping potion; an opiate.
Etymologies
- From Middle English dwale ("dazed, stupor; deception, trickery; delusion; error, wrong-doing, evil"), from Old English dwala, dwola ("error, heresy; doubt; madman, deceiver, heretic") and possibly of Scandinavian origin, compare Danish dvale ‘sleep, stupor’. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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
“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.”
“There are various recipes for dwale from the Middle Ages, and I think they generally feature hemlock, henbane, opium and various other ingredients.”
“I took it off and found it was made of dwale, like the wreaths the adepts had worn for the rites.”
“The adepts wore white wrappers and wreaths of dwale, which in Lambanein meant secrecy.”
“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.”
“The distant woods grow auburn as the leaf-buds swell, and in their folds the shadows are like dwale.”
“For instance, he gives to the deadly nightshade the name, which now only lingers in a corner of Devonshire, the "dwale.”
“Here and there the forest monarchs had fallen from old age, and where they had left a vacancy hazel stubs flourished, springing up gaily, and revelling on the rotten wood and dead leaves which covered the ground, and among which grew patches of nuts and briar, with the dark dewberry and swarthy dwale.”
“I used dwale because I loved the sound of it — it was the name used in Chaucer’s day.”
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Sarah Micklem, Part Two
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dwale’.
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phrontistery - d
from phrontistery.info
dacnomania, dacoitage, dacryops, dactylioglyph, dactyliology, dactyliomancy, dactylogram, dactylography, dactyloid, dactylology, dactylomancy, dactylomegaly and 624 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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wales
in honor of corduroy
pinwale, narrow wale, wide wale, fustian, strake, gunwale, gunnel, dwale, lichwale, swale, outwale, cordillera
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Just 'cause I like 'em, D
dodecahedron, din, diglyceride, dysphotopsia, decoction, deboss, diatonic, dithyramb, divagate, discalced, dishdasha, daft and 281 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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conglomeration
wherewithal, wan, zoonotic, zoonosis, nebulous, nefarious, nascent, quiescent, quell, undercroft, unwitting, unutterable and 658 more...
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Dwight
dwight, dwayne, dwarf, dwell, dwindle, dwale, dwalm, dwang, dwile, dwine, dwimmer, dweeb and 8 more...
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dead
( personal list, randomness )
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/biological
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anti-god, beholder, witches, pre-human, sudden-death, frankenbeasts, hive mind, kill with a smile, overdose, dwale, existence, aura and 65 more... -
Because I Like Them : C --- D
clawscrunt, comprivigni, dinmont, drizzen, desticate, corf, collop, caboodle, canoodle, curfuffle, cynarctomachy, chionablepsia and 56 more...
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Plant lore
A miscellany of plant names and words related to plants
dwayberry, crataegus, daturine, atropine, thorn apple, jimson weed, datura stramonium, stramonium, deadly nightshade, atropa belladonna, dwale, stinkweed and 15 more...
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mollusque Belladonna. Dec 3, 2007