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noun

Welter n.

That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough. "The foul welter of our so-called religious or other controversies."

A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest.

verb

Welter v. t. To wither; to wilt. (R.) "Weltered hearts and blighted... memories."

Welter v. i. (past & past part. weltered; pres. part. weltering)

To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow. "When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards." "These wizards welter in wealth's waves." "He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear." "The priests at the altar... weltering in their blood."

To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows. "The weltering waves." "Waves that, hardly weltering, die away." "Through this blindly weltering sea."

adjective

Welter adj. (Horse Racing) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Welter" Quotes from Famous Books

... possibly seem tame to those who are not satisfied with proportion in form and harmony in tint; it will certainly not seem so to those who are more fortunately gifted. Indeed, compared either with Wilson's welter of words, now bombastic, now gushing, now horse-playful, or with the endless and heartbreaking antitheses of what Brougham ill-naturedly but truly called "Tom's snip-snap," it is infinitely preferable. The conclusion of the essay on Theodore Hook is not ...

— Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 • George Saintsbury

... his keen, catholic, and subtle intellect, was bound to fall under the sway of Alexandrian influence while he studied in Alexandria as the pupil of Heraclianus. The methods of the contemporary school of philosophy fascinated him; and, in his endeavour to bring Medicine out of the chaotic welter in which he found it, he attempted—unhappily for the future of science—to use the hyper-idealistic Platonism then dominant in Alexandria, rather than the gradual and orderly induction of Hippocrates, as a bond of union between professional ...

— Jerome Cardan - A Biographical Study • William George Waters

... 15th of March, 44 B.C., plunged the political situation into a worse chaos than had ever been reached during the Civil wars. For several months it was not at all plain how things were tending, or what fresh combinations were to rise out of the welter in which a vacillating and incapable senate formed the only constitutional rallying-point. In spite of all his long-cherished delusions, Cicero must have known that this way no hope lay; when at last he flung himself into the conflict, and broke away from his literary ...

— Latin Literature • J. W. Mackail

... the words were lost. The chairman of the convention, grim and pale and wondering just how much damage this overturn signified to his personal interests, nodded recognition to these speakers, and allowed them to waste their words upon the welter of mere sound. ...

— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day

... light[436] Back on thy bosom with reflected blight! And make thee in thy leprosy of mind As loathsome to thyself as to mankind! Till all thy self-thoughts curdle into hate, Black—as thy will or others would create: 90 Till thy hard heart be calcined into dust, And thy soul welter in its hideous crust. Oh, may thy grave be sleepless as the bed, The widowed couch of fire, that thou hast spread! Then, when thou fain wouldst weary Heaven with prayer, Look on thine earthly victims—and despair! ...

— The Works Of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 7) • Lord Byron

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