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swoln

[ swohln ]

adjective

, Archaic.
  1. an archaic variant of swollen.


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Here Mrs. Meridith ended her narrative, and the swoln eyes of her auditors gave a proof that they had been attentive to it.

The visual orb was swoln, blood-shot, troubled and intolerably dull.

Lo, in mid flight swoln Amasenus ran foaming with banks abrim, so heavily had the clouds burst in rain.

It grieved his mother that he was not found, that her heart had not been harrowed by the look of the swoln corpse.

I could not help thinking of the danger they ran, having twice to cross the river, which was doubtless swoln by the rain.

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