imp. & p. p.of Dwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. oelté, ivelté. ] (Law) Equality; -- sometimes written ovelty and ovealty. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Swell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ OE. swelten to die, to swoon or faint, AS. sweltan to die; akin to OD. swelten to hunger, to fail, OS. sweltan to die, Icel. svelta to die, to hunger, Sw. svälta to hunger, Dan. sulte, Goth. sviltan to die. Cf. Swelter, Sweltry. ] 1. To die; to perish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To faint; to swoon. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Night she swelt for passing joy. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To overpower, as with heat; to cause to faint; to swelter. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Sweltered p. pr. & vb. n. Sweltering. ] [ From Swelt, v. i. ] 1. To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat. “Sweltered cattle.” Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To welter; to soak. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To oppress with heat. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To exude, like sweat. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Swelter, Swelt, v. i., and cf. Sultry. ] Suffocating with heat; oppressively hot; sultry. [ R. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not lived (in); -- with in. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To wilt. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Welted; p. pr. & vb. n. Welting. ] To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. welte, probably fr. W. gwald a hem, a welt, gwaldu to welt or to hem. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it; as: (a) A small cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a cord, and sewed down. (b) A hem, border, or fringe. [ Obs. ] (c) In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole. (d) In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint. (e) In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it. (f) In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A raised ridge on the surface of the skin, produced by a blow, as from a stick or whip; a wale; a weal; as, to raise welts on the back with a whip.
Syn. -- wale; weal; wheal. [ PJC ]

4. A blow that produces a welt{ 3 }. [ PJC ]

Welt joint, a joint, as of plates, made with a welt, instead of by overlapping the edges. See Weld, n., 1 (d). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Weltanschauungen /plu>. [ G. ] Lit., world view; a conception of the course of events in, and of the purpose of, the world as a whole, forming a philosophical view or apprehension of the universe; the general idea embodied in a cosmology. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

obs. imp. of Weld, to wield. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Weltered p. pr. & vb. n. Weltering. ] [ Freq. of OE. walten to roll over, AS. wealtan; akin to LG. 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. √146. See Well, v. i., and cf. Waltz. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow. [ 1913 Webster ]

When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

These wizards welter in wealth's waves. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

He must not float upon his watery bier
Unwept, and welter to the parching wind,
Without the meed of some melodious tear. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The priests at the altar . . . weltering in their blood. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows. “The weltering waves.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Waves that, hardly weltering, die away. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through this blindly weltering sea. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Wilt, v. i. ] To wither; to wilt. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Weltered hearts and blighted . . . memories. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Horse Racing) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough. [ 1913 Webster ]

The foul welter of our so-called religious or other controversies. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Horse Racing) 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that of a lightweight and that of a middleweight. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ G., fr. welt world + schmertz pain. See World; Smart, v. i. ] Sorrow or sadness over the present or future evils or woes of the world in general; sentimental pessimism. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]