dwale

/ dweɪl /

noun

1. another name for deadly nightshade

Word History and Origins

Origin of dwale¹

C14: perhaps of Scandinavian origin

Example Sentences

Over in Dwale, her speck of a town in Floyd County, Lakin Branham also is unsure whether she can keep her insurance.

From Washington Post

Belladonna, bel′la-don-na, n. the deadly nightshade or dwale, all parts of which are narcotic and poisonous from the presence therein of the alkaloid atropia: the drug prepared from the foregoing.

From Project Gutenberg

And cursing clans that felt the heat That dwale obscured in shadows vague, Clash thro' the broken forest boughs Until each ronyon's stuck in loam.

From Project Gutenberg

And thro' the hyoids, huge and red, Past portals black and guidons bright To onyx lees and opal sands, The Cyclopean vaults of dwale, And cavern'd shapes that Typhon bled, Greet each wand'ring spectre's sight; Where pixies dance on wind-blown strands, Lurke gyte incubi in a hall.

From Project Gutenberg

Here and there the forest monarchs had fallen from old age, and where they had left a vacancy hazel stubs flourished, springing up gaily, and revelling on the rotten wood and dead leaves which covered the ground, and among which grew patches of nuts and briar, with the dark dewberry and swarthy dwale.

From Project Gutenberg