▪ I. † ˈswelting, vbl. n. Obs.
[f. swelt v. + -ing1.]
a. A fainting or being overcome with heat. b. Sweltering heat.
| c 1460 Promp. Parv. (Winch.), Swaltyng, or swownyng, Sincopa uel Extasis. 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. lviii. 5 Some kyndes of poyson kill with theire coldenesse and other⁓some consume the partes of lyfe with sweltinge and burninge. 1607 Markham Caval. i. iv. (1617) 30 Either for casting their Foales, swelting or other violent euill proceeding from wildnesse. |
▪ II. † ˈswelting, ppl. a. Obs.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. Dying.
| ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 1465 They..Swappez doune ffulle sweperlye swelltande knyghtez. Ibid. 2146 Swerdez swangene in two, sweltand knyghtez Lyes wyde opyne. |
2. = sweltering ppl. a.
| a 1542 Wyatt in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 59 Regard at length..The sweltyng paynes of my desire. 1568 T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 49 Nor swelting heat, whose flames y⊇ pastures fry. 1605 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. iii. Law 963 The first drops [of rain] to cool their swelting heat. |