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ˈswelted, ppl. a. dial. [f. prec. + -ed1.] Overpowered with heat; scorched; ‘broiled’, ‘melted’.
a1640Day Peregr. Schol. (1881) 54 The beauteous flowers..were nothing else but swelted weeds and fruitless mosse. a1800Pegge Suppl. Grose (1814), Swelted and Swelter'd, overpowered with heat. Derb. 1848A. B. Evans Leicestersh. Words s.v., It's so warm! and Maria's very swelted. |