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Definition: DWALE |
DWALEAdjective1. A sleeping potion; an opiate. 2. The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures. 3. The deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities. |
Date "DWALE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Dwale \Dwale\, noun. [from Old English expression dwale, dwole, deception, deadly nightshade, Anglo-Saxon dwala, dwola, error, doubt; akin to English dull. See Dull,]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: DWALE |
| Non-English Usage: "DWALE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Frisian (roam, wander). |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dwale | 7 |
dwale ky | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DWALE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Vietnamese | cây cà dược (belladonna). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words ending with "ale": Dale, kale, Nale, Spale, Strale, Whale. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lawed, waled, weald. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-w" | |
-1 letter: awed, dale, deal, lade, lead, lewd, wade, wale, weal, weld. | |
-2 letters: ale, awe, awl, dal, daw, del, dew, eld, lad, law, lea, led, wad, wae, wed. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, al, aw, de, ed, el, la, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-w" | |
+1 letter: bawled, blawed, clawed, dawdle, declaw, dewlap, flawed, waddle, wadmel, wailed, walked, walled, wandle, wauled, wawled, wealds, whaled, yawled. | |
+2 letters: allowed, brawled, crawled, dawdled, dawdler, dawdles, declaws, dewclaw, dewfall, dewlaps, dowable, drawled, drawler, leeward, shawled, swaddle, trawled, twaddle, wabbled, wadable, waddled, waddler, waddles, wadmels, waffled, waggled, waldoes, waltzed, wambled, wangled, warbled, warsled, wattled, wetland. | |
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