[Connected with QUALM sb.3 Cf. Da. kvalme to have a qualm, and G. (now dial.) qualmen (kalmen) to swoon, be unconscious.]

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  † 1.  intr. To have a qualm or qualms. (Cf. QUALMING vbl. sb. and ppl. a.) Obs.

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1565.  Cooper, Thesaurus, Deficere, I faynte, sounde, or qualme for heate.

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1603.  Florio, Montaigne, III. xiii. (1897), VI. 253. My stomacke begins to qualme, my head feeleth a violent aking.

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  2.  a. trans. To make sick. b. absol. To induce qualms. rare.

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1611.  Beaum. & Fl., Scornful Lady, IV. i. How I grew qualm’d in love.

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1713.  Gentleman Instructed, III. viii. 434. Envy qualms on his Bowels, Prodigality on his Purse.

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1884.  G. H. Boughton, in Harper’s Mag., Oct., 701/1. If one is … qualmed by the show of … confectionery.

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