† Forswat

ppl. a. [pa. pple. of *forsweat, f. FOR- pref.¹ + SWEAT v.] Covered with sweat.

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c. 1325. Pol. Songs (Camden), 158.

	Of thralles y am ther thrat,
	That sitteth swart ant for-swat.

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1375. Barbour, Bruce, VII. 1.

	The kyng toward the vod is gane,
	Wery for-swat and vill of vayn.

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c. 1450. Merlin, 296. Com a knyght right well armed vpon a grete steede all for swette.

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1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 138. While Miso and Mopsa (like a couple of foreswat melters) were getting the pure silver of their bodies out of the ure of their garments.

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