sweltt (swelt)

[ Dan.sulte = Goth.swill an, die. Hence the freq. swelter, whence sweltry, sultry, etc. The sense 'faint with heat' is prob. due in part to the influence of sweall, swale1.] I. in trans. 1. To become faint; faint; die. Almost he swelte and swowned ther he stood. Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 532. Nigh she swelt For pa ing joy, which did all into pitty melt. Spenser, F. Q., VI. xii. 21. 3. A rising or inflation, as by pa ion or other 2. To faint with heat; swelter. powerful emotion: as, the swellings of anger, grief, or pride. Ther is inobedience, avauntyng, ypocrisye, despit, ar- ragaunce, impudence, swellyng of hert, insolence, elacioun, impatience, and many another twigge that I can not tell ne declare. Swellyng of hert is whan a man rejoysith him of harm that he hath don. Chaucer , Parson's Tale. Down all the swellings of my troubled heart. No wonder is thogh that I swelte and swete. .. sweven ing icle. S. perennis of Europe and northeastern Asia occurs also in the Rocky Mountains from Colorado and Utah to Alaska; the Tatars apply its leaves to wounds, and the Ru ians use an infusion of them as a medicinal drink. Many medicinal Indian species known as chiretta have been sometimes separated as a genus, Ophelia. See chi retta and bitter - stem. Swertieæ (swer-ti'ē-ē), n . pl . [NL. (Alphonse de Candolle, 1845), swerve (swerv), v.; pret. and pp. swerved, ppr. Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 517. swerving. [ He that Seeks in the Mines the baits of Auarice, Or, swelting at the Furnace, fineth bright Our soules dire sulphur. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 1. Euer thirstie, and ready to swelt for drinke. Nashe, Pierce Penile e, p. 65. pride. I fear lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults. 5. An overflow; an inundation. 2 Cor. xii. 20. IMG:content-2625.png:[blocks in formation] Let him follow the example of Peter and John, that without any ambitious swelling termes cured a lame man. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 722. swellish (swel'ish), a. [ swell-keyboard (swel'kē"bōrd), n. The keyboard of the swell-organ. It is usually placed next above that of the great organ. swell-mob (swel'mob'), n. A cla of pickpockets who go about genteelly dre ed in order to mix in crowds, etc., with le suspicion or chance of recognition. [Slang.] Some of the Swell Mob , on the occasion of this Derby, so far kiddied us as to. come into Epsom from the opposite direction; and go to work, right and left, on the course, while we were waiting for 'em at the Rail. Dickens, Three Detective Anecdotes, ii. swell-mobsman (swel'mobz'man), n. A member of the swell-mob; a genteelly clad pickpocket. Sometimes mobsman . [Slang.] Others who went for play-actors, and a many who got on to be swell - mobsmen, and thieves, and housebreakers, and the like o' that ere. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 417. swell-organ (swel'organ), n. In organ - build ing, one of the partial organs, next in importance to the great organ. It is so named because its pipes are inclosed in a swell-box, so that the loudne of their tone can be varied at will. The stops of this organ are usually among the most delicate and individual in the whole instrument, since the finer gradations of tone, II. trans. 1. To cause to die; kill; destroy. heat; swelter. him with heat? Is the sun to be blamed that the traveller's cloak swelts Bp. Hall, Soliloquies, lxxiv. [ swelter (swelʼtėr), v. tren, swalteren, freq. of swelten, die, faint: see swelt.] I. in trans. 1. To faint with heat; be ready to perish with heat. I behold the darken'd sun bereav'n Of all his light, the battlements of Heav'n Swelt'ring in flames. Quarles, Emblems, iii. 14. If the Suns exce ive heat Make our bodies swelter , To an Osier hedge we get For a friendly shelter. Song , in Walton's Complete Angler, xi. 2. To perspire freely; sweat. They bathe their coursers' sweltering sides. Scott , L. of the L., v. 18. etc., been 'rub, wipe, polish, file, move to and fro, turn, turn aside, wander'; but two orig. diff. words may be concerned. Skeat a umes a connection with Dan. dial. svirre, move to and fro, swerve, turn aside, Dan. svirre, whirl round. srire, revel, = Sw. svirra, murmur, hum. Cf. swarve.] I. in trans. 1. To turn aside suddenly or quickly; turn suddenly aside from the direct course or aim: used of both physical and moral action. And, but the swerde hadde swarved , he hadde ben deed for euer-more. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 137. Rend not thy meate asunder, For that swarues from curtesy. Babees Book (E. E. T. 8.), p. 77. From this dignified attitude.. she never swerved for a moment during the course of her long reign. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 15 IMG:content-2626.png:[blocks in formation] [ Sweltered venom is also explained as venom moistened with the animal's sweat.] 31. To soak; steep. And all the knights there dubbed the morning but before, The evening sun beheld there sweltered in their gore. Drayton, Polyolbion. sweltering (swel'ter-ing), p. a. 1. Sweltry; sultry; suffocating with heat. Hark how the direful hand of vengeance tears The swelt'ring clouds. Quarles, Emblems, ii. 9. We journeyed on in a most sweltering atmosphere. B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 109. [Obsolete or rare.] A maid thitherward did run, To catch her sparrow, which from her did swerve. Sir P. Sidney. 3t. To climb or move upward by winding or turning. (The tree was high) Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerv'd. Dryden, tr. of Theocritus's Idyls, iii. Then up [the] mast tree swarved he. Sir Andrew Barton (Child's Ballads, VII. 207). II. trans. To turn aside; cause to change in IMG:content-2627.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Ready to perish with heat; faint with heat. Swalteryn for hete, or febylne e, or other cawsys, or swownyn. Exalo, sincopizo. Prompt. Parv., p. 481. sweltht, n. [Appar. A deadly gulfe where nought but rubbish growes, With fowle blacke swelth , in thickned lumpes that lies. Sackville, Ind. to Mir. for Mags., st. 31.