An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

SWAPPIS, Perh. sedges.
Pal. Hon.

Teut. schelp, carex.

SWAPPYT, part. pa. Rolled or huddled together.
Wallace.

Isl. sweip-a, Su. G. swep-a, involvere.

SWAR, s. A snare.
Wallace.

Moes. G. swer-an, insidiari.

SWARE, SWIRE, SWYRE, s.
1. The neck.
Douglas.
2. The declination of a mountain or hill, near the summit, S. corr. squair.
Dunbar.
3. The most level spot between two hills, Loth.

A. S. sweor, a pillar; cervix, the neck.

To SWARF, v. n.
1. To faint, to swoon, S. swarth, Ang.
Ross.
2. To become languid.
Douglas.

Su. G. swoerfw-a, in gyrum agitari.