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

Dead-sweir, adj. Extremely lazy, S.
Rutherford.

Sweir-kitty, s. An instrument for winding yarn, S. B.

Sweir, and Kitty, a contemptuous term for a woman.

Sweirnes, s. Laziness, S.
Dunbar.

Sweir-tree, s. An amusement, in which two persons are seated on the ground, and holding a stick between them, each tries who shall first draw the other up; Fife.

SWELCHIE, s. A seal.
V. [Selch].
Brand.

SWELCHIE, s. A whirlpool, Orkn.
V. [Swelth], s.

SWELL, s. A bog, S. B.
V. [Swelth].

To SWELLY, v. a. To swallow, S.
Douglas.

A. S. swelg-an, Su. G. swael-ja, vorare.