swayve, v. dial.
Also 4 sweyue, 9 swave.
[ad. ON. *sveifa (cf. Norw. dial. sveiva to swing, sveiv whirl, vortex), related to sv{iacu}fa to rove, drift (see swive).]
intr. To move to and fro; to flow.
| 13.. E.E. Allit. P. C. 253 Þenne he [sc. the whale] swengez & swayues to þe se boþem. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. Prol. 10 As I lay and lened and loked in þe wateres, I slombred in a slepyng it sweyued [v.r. sweyed, A-text sownede, v.rr. swiȝede, swyed] so merye. 1847 Halliwell, Swave, to pass backward and forward. Cumb. 1878 Cumbld. Gloss., Swayve. |