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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Native name.]

(Zool.)

The sloth bear (

Melursus labiatus

) of India.

aswail ‎(plural not attested)

(dated) The sloth bear (Melursus labiatus) of India.
- Colonel Sykes
  An Aswail brought to me from the woods when quite young, and which lived some time in my possession, fed by choice almost exclusively upon roast mutton and fowl; rejecting all fruits and vegetables.
- 1953, Dirk Pieter Erdbrink, A review of fossil and recent bears of the Old World: volume 1
  […] mutilated parts of an Aswail from Ceylon together with parts of a three-toed Sloth […]