What is to grow languid; to faint. [Scot.] "To swarf for very hunger." Sir W. Scott called?
swarf — To grow languid; to faint. [Scot.] "To swarf for very hunger." Sir W. Scott. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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