welt2 (welt)

of leather round a shoe, a hem, a fringe; perhaps Little low hedges, round like welts , with some pretty pyramids, I like well. Bacon, Gardens (ed. 1887). Clap but a civil gown with a welt [a civilian's gown with a furred border] on the one, and a canonical cloke with sleeves on the other. B. Jonson, Epicæne, iv. 2. A committee-man's clerk, or some such excellent ras cal, clothing himself from top to toe in knavery, without a welt or gard of goodne about him. Randolph, Hey for Honesty, i. 1. His coat was greene, With welts of white seamde betweene. Greene, Mourning Garment. Specifically- (a) In a heraldic achievement, a narrow border to an ordinary or charge. (b) A strip of material sewed round or along an open edge, as of a glove. He [a glove-maker) cuts pieces for the thumbs...and for the binding round the top and the opening just above the palm of the hand, which are called welts. Chambers's Journal , 5th ser., III. 226. (c) A strip of leather in a boot or shoe sewed round the paratory to the attachment of the bottom or outer sole. edge of the conjoined upper leather and inner sole, preSee cut under boot. (d) In carp., a strip forming an additional thickne laid over a flush seam or joint, or placed in an angle, to strengthen it, as in a carvel-built ve el. (e) In sheet-iron work, a strip riveted to two contiguous plates forming a butt-joint. (f) In knitting: (1) One of the ribs at an end of the work, intended to prevent it from rolling up, as around the opening or top of a sock. (2) A separate flap, as a heel-piece, on any piece of work made in a knitting-machine. It is made independently of the work, and afterward knitted on. Hence-2. A low superficial ridge or linear swelling, as on the skin; a weal or wale: as, IMG:content-2235.png:[blocks in formation] Again the reckle and the brave Ride lords of weltering seas. Mother well, Battle-Flag of Sigurd. Incapable of change, Nor touched by welter ings of pa ion. Words worth, Prel., vi. The waves Whelmed the degraded race, and weltered o'er their graves. Bryant, The Ages, st. 18. 2. To roll about, as in some fluid or unstable medium; be to ed or tumbled; hence, to wallow or grovel (in something). He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind Without the meed of some melodious tear. Milton, Lycidas, 1. 13. IMG:content-2236.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To be exposed to or affected by some weltering or floating substance or medium: said of objects at rest. When all is past, it is humbling to tread O'er the weltering field of the tomble dead. Byron, Siege of Corinth, xvii. We climbed over the crest of high sand, where the rushes lay weltering after the wind. R. D. Black more , Maid of Sker, xi. She fell from her horse, slain, and weltering in her blood. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, II. 153. II. trans. 11. To roll; cause to turn or revolve. He that weltereth a stone. Bible of 1549 (Prov. xxvi. 27). 2. To subject to or affect by weltering; accomplish by or as if by wallowing. [Rare.] weltering; Weltering your way through chaos and the murk of Hell. Carlyle.