Sentence:  But afore her volumes fell into my hauns, my soul had been frichtened by a' kinds of traditionary terrors, and mony hunder times hae I maist <WSD>swarfed</WSD> wi' fear in lonesome spats in muirs and woods, at midnicht, when no a leevin thing was movin but mysel and the great moon. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To grow languid; to faint.