| 单词 |
sulter |
| 释义 |
▪ I. † ˈsulter, n. Obs. rare—1.
In 7 sultre.
[f. sulter v.]
A spell of sultry weather; in quot. fig.
1667Waterhouse 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]. 1594Sec. Rep. Dr. Faustus vi. D 3 b, A place..so soultring with hote burning furnaces. 1628J. 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. 1636Featly Clavis Myst. ii. 14 Envy and malice soultred within them, but brake not out into an open flame. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. i. 64 Horse and Asses tir'd, and soultred with the heat of the day. 1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. iii. 719 Soultring within, it [sc. a mount] casts up Pitchy Smoke.
Hence † ˈsultering ppl. a., sweltering, sultry.
1581J. Studley Seneca's Hercules iv. 210 Euen now Appolloës sowltring car did fume about my face. Ibid. ii. Chor., Soulthring fyre. 1594Selimus K 2, When soultring heat the earth's green children spoiles. 1600Holland Livy xxxiv. xlvii. 880 Tedious travaile and soultering heat. 1613Jackson Creed i. xxiv. 150 All that valley was sultring hotte, and the tops of the mountaines sunke downe. 1628F. Fletcher World Encomp. by Sir F. Drake 12 We felt the effects of sultring heat. |
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