worhte wlite-beorhtne wang swâ wäter bebûgeð (_wrought the beauteous plain which_ (acc.) _water surrounds_), 93.--4) swâ ... swâ = _so ... as_, 595, 687-8, 3170; efne swâ ... swâ (_even so ... as_), 1093-4, 1224, 1284; efne swâ hwylc mägða swâ (_such a woman as, whatsoever woman_), 944; efne swâ hwylcum manna swâ (_even so to each man as_), 3058. for-swâfan, st. v., _to carry away, sweep off_: pret. sg. ealle Wyrd for-sweóf mîne mâgas tô metod-sceafte, 2815. for-swâpan, st. v., _to sweep off, force_: pret. sg. hie Wyrd forsweóp on Grendles gryre, 477. swât, st. m., (_sweat_), _wound-blood_: nom. sg., 2694, 2967; instr. sg. swâte, 1287.--Comp. heaðo-, hilde-swât. swât-fâh, adj., _blood-stained_: nom. sg., 1112. swâtig, adj., _gory_: nom. sg., 1570. swât-swaðu, st. f., _blood-trace_: nom. sg., 2947. be-swælan, w. v., _to scorch_: pret. part. wäs se lêg-draca ... glêdum beswæled, 3042. swæs, adj., _intimate, special, dear_: acc. sg. swæsne êðel, 520; nom. pl. swæse ge-sîðas, 29; acc. pl. leóde swæse, 1869; swæse ge-sîðas, 2041; gen. pl. swæsra ge-sîða, 1935. swæs-lîce, adv., _pleasantly, in a friendly manner_, 3090. swebban, w. v., (_to put to sleep_), _to kill_: inf. ic hine sweorde swebban nelle, 680; pres. sg. III. (absolutely) swefeð, 601. â-swebban, _to kill, slay_: pret. part. nom. pl. sweordum â-swefede, 567. sweðrian, w. v., _to lessen, diminish_: inf. þät þät fyr ongan sweðrian, 2703; pret. siððan Heremôdes hild sweðrode, 902. swefan, st. v.: 1) _to sleep_: pres. sg. III. swefeð, 1742; inf. swefan, 119, 730, 1673; pret. sg. swäf, 1801; pl. swæfon, 704; swæfun, 1281.--2) _to sleep the death-sleep, die_: pres. sg. III. swefeð, 1009, 2061, 2747; pl. swefað, 2257, 2458. swegel, st. n., _ether, clear sky_: dat. sg. under swegle, 1079, 1198; gen. sg. under swegles begong, 861, 1774. swegle, adj., _bright, etherlike, clear_: acc. pl. swegle searo-gimmas, 2750. swegel-wered, _quasi_ pret. part., _ether-clad_: nom. sg. sunne swegl-wered, 607. swelgan, st. v., _to swallow_: pret. sg. w. instr. syn-snædum swealh (_swallowed in great bites_), 744; object omitted, subj. pres. nymðe lîges fäðm swulge on swaðule, 783. for-swelgan, w. acc., _to swallow, consume_: pret. sg. for-swealg, 1123, 2081. swellan, st. v., _to swell_: inf. þâ sió wund on-gan ... swêlan and swellan, 2714. sweltan, st. v., _to die, perish_: pret. sg. swealt, 1618, 2475; draca morðre swealt (_died a violent death_), 893, 2783; wundor-deáðe swealt, 3038; hioro-dryncum swealt, 2359. swencan, w. v., _to swink, oppress, strike_: pret. sg. hine wundra þäs fela swencte (MS. swecte) on sunde, 1511. ge-swencan, _to oppress, strike, injure_: pret. sg. syððan hine Hæðcyn ... flâne geswencte, 2439; pret. part. synnum ge-swenced, 976; hæðstapa hundum ge-swenced, 1369.--Comp. lyft-ge-swenced. sweng, st. m., _blow, stroke_: dat. sg. swenge, 1521, 2967; swenge _(with its stroke_), 2687; instr. pl. sweordes swengum, 2387.--Comp.: feorh-, hete-, heaðo-, heoro-sweng.