† sweltingn.
Obsolete.
1. A fainting or being overcome with heat.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [noun] > fainting or swooning
swimeOE
swowingc1000
swooningc1290
swoonc1330
soundingc1380
swelteringc1440
sweltingc1460
swalming1487
swounding1570
syncopization1598
fainting1601
lipothymy1603
defection1615
dereliction1647
swebbing1668
swound1880
greyout1942
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [noun] > fainting or swooning > a faint or swoon
swimeOE
swooningc1290
swowa1325
swooningc1330
swoon1390
soundc1400
trancec1405
sweamc1415
swoundc1440
sweltingc1460
swarf1488
dwalm?a1513
sounding ecstasy?1565
sounding1580
pasme1591
death1596
lipothymy1603
deliquium1620
delique1645
fainting fit1714
drow1727
faint-fit1795
faint1808
blacking out1930
blackout1934
greyout1942
pass-out1946
c1460 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) Swaltyng, or swownyng, Sincopa uel Extasis.
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 30 Either for casting their Foales, swelting, or other violent euill proceeding from wildnesse.
2. Sweltering heat.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > oppressive heat
swelting1571
sultriness1662
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lviii. 5) Some kyndes of poyson kill with theire coldenesse and other~some consume the partes of lyfe with sweltinge and burninge.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
† sweltingadj.
Obsolete.
1. Dying.
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the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective] > dying
deadlyc893
swelting?a1400
dyingc1450
at (the) utterance1525
in (the, his) extremes1551
parting1562
Acherontic1597
ending1600
departing1603
on one's last legs1614
expiring1635
mortifying1649
morient1679
upon one's last stretch1680
gasping1681
à la mort1700
moribund1721
outward-bound1809
terminal1854
on the brink of the grave1872
defunctive1929
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1465 They..Swappez doune ffulle sweperlye swelltande knyghtez.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 2146 Swerdez swangene in two, sweltand knyghtez Lyes wyde opyne.
2. = sweltering adj.
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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
a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) ccxlviii. 7 Regard at length..The sweltyng paynes of my desire.
1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 16 Nor swelting heat, whose flames ye pastures fry.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 87 The fresh drops [of rain] to coole their swelting heat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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n.c1460adj.?a1400