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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. Icel.

svalr

cool,

svala

to cool.]

A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen.

[Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

Verb.

To melt and waste away; to singe. See

Verb.

Noun.

A gutter in a candle.

[Prov. Eng.]

Noun.

[probably from vale.] A local word in New England, signifying an interval or vale; a tract of low land.

In England, a shade.

Verb.

To waste. [See Sweal.]

Verb.

To dress a hog for bacon, by singeing or burning off his hair. [Local.]