dwale

• IPA^(key): /dweɪl/
• Rhymes: -eɪl

From Middle English dwale (“dazed, stupor; deception, trickery; delusion; error, wrong-doing, evil”), from Old English dwala, dwola (“error, heresy; doubt; madman, deceiver, heretic”) and possibly of Scandinavian origin, compare Danish dvale ‘sleep, stupor’.

dwale (countable and uncountable, plural dwales)

1. (obsolete) a sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna
   • Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale

     To bedde goþ Aleyne and also John; / Þer nas na moore – hem nedede no dwale.

2. belladonna itself, deadly nightshade; or some other soporific plant
   • 1842, J. van Voorst, The Phytologist, p. 595.

     Beneath and around the clumps of ragged moss-grown elder and hoary stunted whitethorn (...) rise thickets of tall nettles and rank hemlock, concealing the deadly but alluring dwale —

3. error, delusion
4. (heraldry) a sable or black color.
5. (obsolete) A heretic.

From Middle English dwalen, from Old English dwalian, from Proto-Germanic *dwalōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwelH- (“to make turbid”).

dwale (third-person singular simple present dwales, present participle dwaling, simple past and past participle dwaled)

1. To mutter deliriously

• dwaal — a dreamy, dazed, or absent-minded state
• dwual — to be delirious

• dwale in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• Weald, lawed, waled, weald

dwale

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dwalen

From Old Dutch *thwāla, *twēla, *thweila, from Proto-Germanic *þwahilō.

dwâle f or m

1. cloth
2. towel

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• dwêle
• *dweile

• Dutch: dwaal, dweil
• Limburgish: dweiel

• “dwale”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “dwale (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929