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▪ I. smouldering, vbl. n.|ˈsməʊldərɪŋ|
[f. smoulder v.]
The action of the verb.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 156/3 They made therin a grete smolderyng of smoke for to dysease hym. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxviii. 2 The smooldering itself will compel him to let in the water. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. iv. iv, Forty years of that smouldering. 1900Westm. Gaz. 3 Oct. 2/2 Smouldering is often more difficult to deal with than open flame.
▪ II. ˈsmouldering, ppl. a.
[f. smoulder v.]
†1. Smothering, suffocating, stifling. Obs.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 955 Al in smolderande smoke smachande ful ille. 1577Tusser Husb. (1878) 199 His acts be like the smoldring smoke. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. v. 3 The smouldring dust did round about him smoke. 1629Milton Hymn Nativ. xvii, While the red fire, and smouldring clouds out brake. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 740 Clouds of smouldring Smoke forbad the Sacrifice. 1725Pope Odyss. xii. 492 Sulphureous odours rose, and smouldering smoke.
†2. Smoky; giving out smoke. Obs.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 210 Least while hee goeth about to auoide the smoulthering cole-pitte hee happe to fall into the scalding lime kill. 1767Jago Edge-Hill iii. 491 From russet Lawns, and smould'ring Furnaces, To trace the Progress of thy steely Arts.
3. Burning slowly and without flame.
1832H. Martineau Weal & Woe ii. 18 The widow..applied more fuel to her smouldering fire. 1848Dickens Dombey xxxiv, When any stray drops of rain fell hissing on the smouldering embers. 1877Black Green Past. xlv. (1878) 362 He only stared into the smouldering wood before him.
b. In fig. contexts.
1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom xxxv, All the smouldering embers of womanly feeling flashed up. 1856N. Brit. Rev. XXVI. 243 It is not a pleasant duty to rake up the smouldering embers of ancient controversies. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xxv. 343 The smouldering fires of Arthur's wrath.
c. fig. Existing or continuing in a state of suppression or restraint.
1818Scott Rob Roy xi, I subdued it into a sort of smouldering heart-burning. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede ii, A little smouldering vague anxiety. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 56 The continuous smouldering activity of the true rheumatic process.
d. Glowing with a dull light.
1898Doyle Trag. Korosko iv, Belmont, looking with smouldering eyes at the wretched Mansoor. 1904Benson Challoners i, The dusky smouldering gold of her hair.
Hence ˈsmoulderingly adv.; -ness.
1849Lowell Biglow P. Ser. i. Introd., A smothered smoulderingness of disposition seldom roused to open flame. 1893F. Thompson Poems 76 The verge shrivelled inward smoulderingly. |