dwam

• Juist say I've taen a kind o' a dwam, but that I'll likely be a' richt again in a day or twa. —  My Man Sandy
• He couldn't do nowt to Doed so lang as he were maister o' his senses, but if he was to get fair giddy an' drop off into a dwam, then, sure enif, Melsh Dick would have him i' his power and could turn him intul a squirrel as he'd turned other lads an' lasses afore. —  More Tales of the Ridings
• So the Prebendary went into the house in a kind of dwam, as the Scots put it, and had no notion of what the Dean had to say; and when he got back to the garden he found his gardener smoothing the plot with a long rake, and raking in a lot of dead ants with the mould. —  The Haunters ; The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural
• Was that no enough to gar me tak a 'dwam' when ye spoke o' the great nobles no payin I would that all our outlying monies were as safe," said Semple; "but here come the knights and squires forth from their tents. —  The Black Douglas
• But he begood to dwam (sicken) in the end of the year, and soughed awa' in the spring. —  Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush

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