Definition of "swoln" [swoln]

• Obsolete spelling of swollen. (adjective)

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• "With concern he beheld her cheeks pale, her eyes red and swoln, with weeping."
• "He remained while Gideon continued his explanation, in a dejected posture, his eyes fixed on the ground, and the veins of his forehead swoln with contending passions."
• "Ay, thus it is, the old man will not forget that he has once been young, nor the young that he must some day be old; and so the one changes his manners into the lingering formality of advanced age, and the other remains like a midsummer torrent swoln with rain, every drop of water in it noise, froth, and overflow."