Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Overheated; covered with sweat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Spent with heat; covered with sweat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
Overheated ;covered withsweat .
Etymologies
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From Middle English forswat, from Old English *forswǣtt, *forswǣted, past participle of Old English *forswǣtan (“to sweat excessively”), equivalent to for- + sweat.
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Examples
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Upon the half-ploughed land, lying yonder veiled so tenderly with the mist and the rain, I could take oath to the very spot where five hundred years ago the plowman of Chaucer, all "forswat,"
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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The forswat [24] meadowes smethe [25], and drenche [26] the raine; 30
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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