swoln

American  

[swohln] / swoʊln /

adjective

Archaic.

1. an archaic variant of swollen.

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Example Sentences

What sorrow hath swoln and beclouded thine eye?

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

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

Then did their loss his foemen know; Their King, their Lords, their mightiest low, They melted from the field, as snow, When streams are swoln and south winds blow,   Dissolves in silent dew.

From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various

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

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

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil