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▪ I. sweltering, vbl. n.|ˈswɛltərɪŋ|
[f. swelter v. + -ing1.]
a. Fainting, swooning.
b. A condition of suffering from oppressive heat.
c1440Promp. Parv. 481/2 Swalterynge, or swownynge, sincopa. Ibid. 482/2 Sweltrynge, or swalterynge.., sincopa. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1598) 341 To asswage the sweltring of my hellish longing. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes 102 Neither themselves, nor any other, can remaine in them [sc. their houses] without sweltring. 1846Jas. Hamilton Mount of Olives viii. 191 When the fret and worry and sweltering of their jaded day is done.
▪ II. ˈsweltering, ppl. a.
[f. swelter v. + -ing2.]
†1. Exuding with heat. Obs. rare.
1575Gascoigne Dan Bartholomew Wks. 1907 I. 112 The droppes of sweltring sweate, Which trickle downe my face.
2. Of heat, weather, a season, etc.: Oppressive or overpowering with great heat; causing or accompanied by profuse sweating or suffocation through extreme heat.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 182 The sweltring heat, and shiv'ring cold. c1620Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 40, I here doe lye, Without a shed scorch'd with a swelt'ring skye. 1650W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. §275 The sweltring heat of the heart is cooled by the lungs (lights) lying next to it. 1661Hickeringill Jamaica 7 The sweltering and sultry Climes within the Tropicks. 1706E. Baynard in Sir J. Floyer Hot & Cold Bath. ii. 384 He was wrapt..in Flannels,..but..threw off all his Sweltering Harness. 1798Southey Cross Roads vii, In such a sweltering day as this A knapsack is the devil. 1863Dicey Federal St. II. 49 That dull still closeness which foretels a day of sweltering heat. 1899Somerville & Ross Exper. Irish R.M. xii, The dances lasted a sweltering half-hour.
b. fig. of the heat of feeling. Now rare or Obs.
In quot. 1820 with reminiscence of Shakespeare's sweltered venom: see sweltered 1.
1586A. Day Engl. Secretorie i. (1625) 112 Shunning to be tainted with the least touch of sweltring griefe. 1587― Daphnis & Chloe iv. (1890) 14 With a maner of sweltring kind of disdaine. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. i. i, I burnt in inward sweltring hate. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. ii. i. 427 The blighting venom of his sweltering heart.
3. a. Of persons: Suffering from or overpowered by oppressive heat.
1652Benlowes Theoph. iv. xlvi, How in Love's torrid zone thy swelt'ring martyr stews. 1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 1199, I forced myself through the sweltering press. 1883Harper's Mag. Oct. 804/2, I was starved and sweltering.
b. Of localities, etc.: Excessively hot or sultry.
1845Hirst Com. Mammoth, etc. 93 As he strode Along the sweltering glade. 1886Athenæum 20 Feb. 259/2 Whether in the sweltering cities of the south or in dirt-begrimed Peking. 1888G. Allen in Longm. Mag. July 306 All the parts of the camel's body which touch the sweltering sand in his ordinary patient kneeling position are provided with callosities of thickened hide. 1890R. Bridges Shorter Poems ii. v. 9 Swift from the sweltering pasturage he flows.
Hence ˈswelteringly adv.
c1890A. Murdoch Yoshiwara Episode 13 It was August, and consequently swelteringly hot. |