Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To be delirious.

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Examples

  • Blazing Tinman; and he pressed my throat so hard against the tree that my senses began to dwaul away -- a Bible, a Bible, still ringing in my ears.

    Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • Blazing Tinman; and he pressed my throat so hard against the tree that my senses began to dwaul away -- a Bible, a Bible, still ringing in my ears.

    Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842

  • Blazing Tinman; and he pressed my throat so hard against the tree that my senses began to dwaul away -- a Bible, a Bible, still ringing in my ears.

    Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • Blazing Tinman; and he pressed my throat so hard against the tree that my senses began to dwaul away -- a bible, a bible, still ringing in my ears.

    Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • Bible!’ roared the Blazing Tinman; and he pressed my throat so hard against the tree that my senses began to dwaul away — a

    Lavengro 2004

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