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2. Reluctant, unwilling, S.

_Ramsay._

3. n.i.g.g.ardly, unwilling to part with any thing, S. O.

~Dead-sweir~, _adj._ Extremely lazy, S.

_Rutherford._

~Sweir-kitty~, _s._ An instrument for winding yarn, S. B.

_Sweir_, and _Kitty_, a contemptuous term for a woman.

~Sweirnes~, _s._ Laziness, S.

_Dunbar._

~Sweir-tree~, _s._ An amus.e.m.e.nt, in which two persons are seated on the ground, and holding a stick between them, each tries who shall first draw the other up; Fife.

SWELCHIE, _s._ A seal.

V. ~Selch~.

_Brand._

SWELCHIE, _s._ A whirlpool, Orkn.

V. ~Swelth~, s.

SWELL, _s._ A bog, S. B.

V. ~Swelth~.

_To_ SWELLY, _v. a._ To swallow, S.

_Douglas._

A. S. _swelg-an_, Su. G. _swael-ja_, vorare.

_To_ SWELT, _v. n._ To die.

_Barbour._

A. S. _swealt-an_, _swelt-an_, mori.

_To_ SWELT, _v. n._ To have a sense of suffocation, especially from heat, S.

_Ross._

Isl. _swael-a_, _swaelt_, suffocare.

SWELTH, _adj._ Voracious.

_Douglas._

A. S. _swelgeth_, devorat, q. that which _swalloweth_; Isl.

_swaelt-a_, esurire.

SWELTH, _s._ A gulf, a whirlpool.

_Doug._

Su. G. _swalg_, Teut. _swelgh_, a gulf; Isl. _swelg-r_, Dan.

_swaelg_, vorago, gurges.

SUENYNG, _s._ Dreaming.

V. ~Sweuin~.

SWERD, _s._ A sword.

V. ~Suerd~.

SWERF, _s._ A swoon.

V. ~Swarf~.

SWERTHBAK, _s._ The great black and white gull.

V. ~Swartback~.

_Houlate._

Isl. _swartbak-ur_, the lesser guillemot.

SWESCH, _s._ A trumpet.

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