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Faint, to Shakespeare
Answer for the clue "Faint, to Shakespeare ", 6 letters:
swound
Word definitions for swound in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English): (non-gloss definition: alternative form of swoon) vb. (context archaic English): (non-gloss definition: alternative form of swoon)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swound \Swound\, v. & n. See Swoon , v. & n. [Prov. Eng. or Archaic] --Shak. Dryden. The landlord stirred As one awaking from a swound. --Longfellow.
Usage examples of swound.
I stood, and Krip Vorlund lay in a swound now so deep that I could not probe it.
And Miss Kate there, in a dark swound, enough to turn the heart of any Christian.
Soone as they bene arriu'd vpon the brimOf the Rich strond, their charets they forlore,And let their temed fishes softly swimAlong the margent of the fomy shore,Least they their finnes should bruze, and surbate soreTheir tender feet vpon the stony ground:And comming to the place, where all in goreAnd cruddy bloud enwallowed they foundThe lucklesse Marinell, lying in deadly swound.