weltering

Verb (1)

welter (third-person singular simple present welters, present participle weltering, simple past and past participle weltered)

1. (intransitive) To roll around; to wallow.
   • […] were it not for shame,
     Shame and dishonour to a soldier’s name,
     Upon my weapon’s point here shouldst thou fall,
     And welter in thy gore.1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act...
2. (figuratively, intransitive) To revel, luxuriate.
   • When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards.1537, Hugh Latimer, Sermon III, Preached to the Convocation of the Clergy, in The Sermons of Hugh Latimer, London: J. Scott, 1783, Volume I, p. 38
3. (intransitive, billows) To rise and fall, to tumble over, to roll.
   • Such Musick (as ’tis said)
     Before was never made,
     But when of old the sons of morning sung,
     While the Creator Great
     His constellations set,
     And the well-ballanc’t world on hinges hung,
     And cast the dark foundations deep,
     And bid the weltring waves their oozy channel keep.1645, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christ's Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, London: Humphrey Moseley, Stanza XII, pp. 6-7

Verb (2)

welter (third-person singular simple present welters, present participle weltering, simple past and past participle weltered)

1. To wither; to wilt.
   • But look now into the weltered hearts and blighted memories of those whom we have gathered from out of the thousands of the lost and wretched.1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization, and Other Essays, London: Bell & Dalday, “Ultimate Civilization,” Part I, IV, p. 40

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