swoln

American  

[swohln] / swoʊln /

adjective

Archaic.

1. an archaic variant of swollen.

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Example Sentences

My pent-up tears oppress my brain, My heart is swoln with love unsaid.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

And he is lean and he is sick, His body dwindled and awry Rests upon ankles swoln and thick; His legs are thin and dry.

From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Palgrave, Francis Turner

There, once again he bent for ease his limbs Both arms and knees, in conflict with the floods Exhausted; swoln his body was all o’er, And from his mouth and nostrils stream’d the brine.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William

It grieved his mother that he was not found, that her heart had not been harrowed by the look of the swoln corpse.—O good mother, rather thank God for it!—

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas

And he is lean and he is sick, His body, dwindled and awry, Rests upon ankles swoln and thick; His legs are thin and dry.

From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various