Dwale

Word DWALE
Character 5
Hyphenation dwale
Pronunciations /dweɪl/

Definitions and meanings of "Dwale"

What do we mean by dwale?

A sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna

Belladonna itself, deadly nightshade; or some other soporific plant

Error, delusion

A sable or black color.

A heretic.

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The word "dwale" in example sentences

As an example of the mixture of real and fake, dwale is based on a real plant, deadly nightshade, but I took liberties with its effects. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Also called dwale - deriving this common name from the French word for sorrow, deuil, or the Scandinavian word, dool, for sleep or delay - deadly nightshade is a very effective poison. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are various recipes for dwale from the Middle Ages, and I think they generally feature hemlock, henbane, opium and various other ingredients. ❋ Carla (2010)

The adepts wore white wrappers and wreaths of dwale, which in Lambanein meant secrecy. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

I took it off and found it was made of dwale, like the wreaths the adepts had worn for the rites. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

Two of the most beautiful of these are the white convolvulus, San Graal of the hedges, and the dwale – that lurid amphora where the death's-head moth, with its weird form and wings of enchanted purples, drinks under the white light of the moon and, if it is touched, cries out like a witch in a weak, strident voice. ❋ Unknown (1917)

The distant woods grow auburn as the leaf-buds swell, and in their folds the shadows are like dwale. ❋ Unknown (1917)

For instance, he gives to the deadly nightshade the name, which now only lingers in a corner of Devonshire, the "dwale." ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)

Here and there the forest monarchs had fallen from old age, and where they had left a vacancy hazel stubs flourished, springing up gaily, and revelling on the rotten wood and dead leaves which covered the ground, and among which grew patches of nuts and briar, with the dark dewberry and swarthy dwale. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

I used dwale because I loved the sound of it — it was the name used in Chaucer’s day. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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