sweert, a. Sc.
(swirt)
Also sweered, sweerd, sweired, sweirt, swear't.
[? f. sweer a. + -ed (-t). Cf. swippert (see swipper).]
= sweer 3, 4.
| 1817 Lintoun Green Errata etc. 167 Sweered, yet willing. 1824 S. E. Ferrier Inher. iv. (1825) I. 39 He maun tak what the doctor sends him..but 'tweel he's very sweered to tak them whiles, tho' I'm sure muckle money they cost. 1870 Ramsay Remin. (ed. 18) p. xv, A man sae sure o' Heaven and sae sweert to be gaing taet. 1885 Black White Heather xx, I was sweirt to trouble his lordship with my small affairs. |