English Dictionary

dwale

IPA（発音記号）

/dweɪl/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 古語 方言

Belladonna or a similar soporific plant. / (archaic) A sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna. / (dialect) A torpor. / A bugbear.

日本語の意味

ベルラドンナ、または同様に催眠効果を持つ植物 / （古語）眠りを誘う薬、特にベルラドンナを原料としたもの / （方言）麻痺状態、または無気力な状態 / （比喩的に）恐怖の対象、厄介な存在

The apothecary warned that the dwale could cause deep sleep if taken in large doses.

薬剤師は、ベラドンナが大量に服用すると深い眠りを引き起こす可能性があると警告した。

意味（1）

Belladonna or a similar soporific plant.

Beneath and around the clumps of ragged moss-grown elder and hoary stunted whitethorn (...) rise thickets of tall nettles and rank hemlock, concealing the deadly but alluring dwale

意味（2）

(archaic) A sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna.

The authors studied the ingredients and method of administration to try to ascertain whether dwale was effective, and they found it certainly could have worked.

意味（3）

(dialect) A torpor.

He's in a dwale, a dead sleep; a common expression in the North of England.

意味（4）

A bugbear.

Consume us; shake the darkness like a tree, And fill the night with mischiefs, — blights and dwales, Weevils, and rots, and cankers!

意味（5）

(heraldry) Sable or black (when the colors are blazoned as plants).

dwales （ plural ）