† sultern.
Obsolete. rare.
A spell of sultry weather; in quot. 1667 figurative.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > hot weather > [noun] > oppressive heat > spell of
sulter1667
1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 116 This Rain of Fertility after Englands Sultre of war and dissension.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
† sulterv.
Obsolete.
= swelter v.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > be hot [verb (intransitive)] > have or get the sensation of heat > suffer oppressive heat
sweltc1400
swelterc1403
sulter1581
stive1806
15811 [see sultering adj. at Derivatives].
1594 2nd Rep. Dr. Faustus vi. sig. D3v A place..so soultring with hote burning furnaces.
1628 J. Clavell Recantation of Ill Led Life 16 Thus to be furnish'd then, is iust as tho A man should thatch his dwelling house with snow, Which melts, drops, soulters, and consumes away Euen the time of one sun-shining day.
1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica ii. 14 Envy and malice soultred within them, but brake not out into an open flame.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. i. 64 Horse and Asses tir'd, and soultred with the heat of the day.
1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur iii. 87 Soultring within, it [sc. a mount] casts up Pitchy Smoke.
Derivatives
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [adjective] > having or communicating much heat > oppressively
swoly1496
faint1525
swaltish1530
sweltinga1542
sultering1581
swelty1586
sultry1594
swoltery1603
swole-hot1721
sweltering1845
1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Hercules Oetæus iv, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 210 Euen now Appolloës sowltring car did fume about my face.
1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Hercules Oetæus ii, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 199 Soulthring fyre.
1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus K 2 When soultring heat the earth's green children spoiles.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiv. xlvii. 880 Tedious travaile and soultering heat.
1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. i. xxiv. 150 All that valley was sultring hotte, and the tops of the mountaines sunke downe.
1628 World Encompassed by Sir F. Drake 12 We felt the effects of sultring heat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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