a. Sc. 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.
1834. Miss 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.
