English

Noun

sweven ‎(plural swevens)

1. (archaic) A dream.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xiij, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:

     The kynge with the honderd knyghtes mette a wonder dreme two nyghtes a fore the bataille / that ther blewe a grete wynde & blewe doun her castels and her townes / and after that cam a water and bare hit all awey / Alle that herd of the sweuen said / it was a token of grete batayll

   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton (trans.), The Thousand Nights and One Night:

     [The queen] went in to the Sultan and assured him that their daughter had suffered during all her wedding-night from swevens and nightmare.

2. (archaic) A vision.
   • The Golden Legend

     And then she said: Sir, hast thou seen the sweven that I have seen?

Anagrams

• venews