Word Meanings - SWELTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat. "Sweltered cattle." Coleridge. 2. To welter; to soak. Drayton.

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• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• PERISHMENT
  The act of perishing. Udall.
• PERISHABILITY
  Perishableness.
• FAINTLY
  In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.
• READY-MADE
  Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
• OVERCOMER
  One who overcomes.
• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• OVERCOME
  1. To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle. This wretched woman overcome Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been. Spenser. 2. To overflow; to surcharge. J. Philips. 3. To come or pass over;
• FAINTLING
  Timorous; feeble-minded. "A fainting, silly creature." Arbuthnot.
• SWELTER
  1. To oppress with heat. Bentley. 2. To exude, like sweat. Shak.
• WELTER
  weltern, G. walzen to roll, to waltz, sich wälzen to welter, OHG. walzan to roll, Icel. velta, Dan. vælte, Sw. vältra, välta; cf. Goth. waltjan; probably akin to E. wallow, well, v. i. Well, v. i., and cf. 1. To roll, as the body of an animal;
• PERISHABLE
  Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or death; as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies.
• FAINTISH
  Slightly faint; somewhat faint. -- Faint"ish*ness, n.
• PERISHABLENESS
  The quality or state of being perishable; liability to decay or destruction. Locke.
• CATTLE
  Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine. Belted cattle, Black cattle. See under Belted, Black. -- Cattle guard, a trench under a railroad track
• FAINTNESS
  1. The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control. 2. Want of vigor or energy. Spenser. 3. Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description. 4. Faint-heartedness; timorousness;
• READY-WITTED
  Having ready wit.
• FAINTING
  Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak. Fainting fit, a fainting or swoon; syncope.
• FAINTS
  The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil. Ure.
• PERISHABLY
  In a perishable degree or manner.
• OVERREADY
  Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n.
• ANT-CATTLE
  Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.
• ALREADY
  Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. "Joseph was in Egypt already." Exod. i. 5. I say unto you, that Elias is come already. Matt. xvii. 12. Note: It has reference to past time, but may be used
• EMPERISHED
  Perished; decayed. I deem thy brain emperished be. Spenser.
• VIPERISH
  Somewhat like a viper; viperous.
• COPPERISH
  Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.
• IMPERISHABILITY
  The quality of being imperishable: indstructibility. "The imperishability of the universe." Milman.
• THREADY
  1. Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub. 2. Containing, or consisting of, thread.
• UNREADY
  1. Not ready or prepared; not prompt; slow; awkward; clumsy. Dryden. Nor need the unready virgin strike her breast. Keble. 2. Not dressed; undressed.
• UNPERISHABLE
  Imperishable.