▪ I. † ˈsulter, n. Obs. rare—1.
In 7 sultre.
[f. sulter v.]
A spell of sultry weather; in quot. fig.
| 1667 Waterhouse Narr. Fire in London 116 This Rain of Fertility after Englands Sultre of war and dissension. |
▪ II. † ˈsulter, v. Obs.
Also 6 sowlter, soulther, 6–7 soulter.
[Perhaps for *swulter, cogn. with swalter, swelter.]
= swelter v.
| 1581 [see sultering]. 1594 Sec. Rep. Dr. Faustus vi. D 3 b, A place..so soultring with hote burning furnaces. 1628 J. Clavell Recantation 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 Featly Clavis Myst. ii. 14 Envy and malice soultred within them, but brake not out into an open flame. 1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. i. 64 Horse and Asses tir'd, and soultred with the heat of the day. 1695 Blackmore Pr. Arth. iii. 719 Soultring within, it [sc. a mount] casts up Pitchy Smoke. |
Hence † ˈsultering ppl. a., sweltering, sultry.
| 1581 J. Studley Seneca's Hercules iv. 210 Euen now Appolloës sowltring car did fume about my face. Ibid. ii. Chor., Soulthring fyre. 1594 Selimus K 2, When soultring heat the earth's green children spoiles. 1600 Holland Livy xxxiv. xlvii. 880 Tedious travaile and soultering heat. 1613 Jackson Creed i. xxiv. 150 All that valley was sultring hotte, and the tops of the mountaines sunke downe. 1628 F. Fletcher World Encomp. by Sir F. Drake 12 We felt the effects of sultring heat. |