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welter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Welter \Wel"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Weltered; p. pr. & vb. n. Weltering.] [Freq. of OE. walten to roll over, AS. wealtan; akin to LG. weltern, G. walzen to roll, to waltz, sich w["a]lzen to welter, OHG. walzan to roll, Icel. velta, Dan. v[ae]lte, Sw. v["a]ltra, v["a]lta; cf. Goth. waltjan; probably akin to E. wallow, well, v. i. [root]146. See Well, v. i., and cf. Waltz.]
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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.
--Latimer.These wizards welter in wealth's waves.
--Spenser.He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear.
--Milton.The priests at the altar . . . weltering in their blood.
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To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows. ``The weltering waves.''
--Milton.Waves that, hardly weltering, die away.
--Wordsworth.Through this blindly weltering sea.
--Trench.
Welter \Wel"ter\, v. t. [Cf. Wilt, v. i.] To wither; to wilt. [R.]
Weltered hearts and blighted . . . memories.
--I.
Taylor.
Welter \Wel"ter\, a. (Horse Racing) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.
Welter \Wel"ter\, n.
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That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough.
The foul welter of our so-called religious or other controversies.
--Carlyle. A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to roll or twist," early 14c., from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German welteren "to roll," from Proto-Germanic *waltijan (cognates: Old English wieltan, Old Norse velta, Old High German walzan "to turn, revolve," German wälzen "to roll," Gothic waltjan "to roll"), from PIE root *wel- (3) "to turn, revolve" (see volvox). Related: Weltered; weltering.
1590s, "confusion," from welter (v.). The meaning "confused mass" is first recorded 1851.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. general confusion; disorderly mixture; aimless effort; as, a welter of papers and magazines vb. 1 (context intransitive English) to roll; to wallow 2 (context intransitive sometimes figurative English) to be soaked or steeped in. 3 To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows. Etymology 2
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Of horsemen, heavyweight; as, a welter race. Etymology 3
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To wither; to wilt.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Welter may refer to
- welterweight, a weight class division in combat sports, especially boxing
- Welter (publication), a literary magazine based at the University of Baltimore, United States
- Welter Racing, French sports car maker
- Welter (surname)
Welter is a literary magazine based at the University of Baltimore. Welter is graduate student run publication with new editorial staff every year. New issues are released every fall, generally in early December. Welter has been a University of Baltimore's student run literary for more than 50 years. The magazine accepts international submissions in the genres of poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
A more recent "sibling" magazine, Skelter, is specifically targeted at the goal of running work from students in the UB community. Since the creation of its sibling magazine, Welter has become graduate student run. (Welter accepts submissions from around the world.)
Welter is a Germananic surname that may refer to
- Alexandre Welter (born 1953), Brazilian sailor
- Ariadne Welter (1930–1998), Mexican movie actress
- Charles Welter (born 1880), Dutch minister
- Gabriel Welter (1890–1954), German archaeologist.
- Jean Welter (born 1901), Luxembourgian boxer
- Jennifer Welter (born 1977), American football player and coach
- Kurt Welter (1916–1949), German fighter ace
- Marion Welter (born 1965), Luxembourgian singer
- Michel Welter (1859–1924), Luxembourgian politician
- Nik Welter (1871–1951), Luxembourgian writer and politician
Category:German-language surnames
Usage examples of "welter".
For the economic rationale of this, I must refer disciples of Siegfried to a tract from my hand published by the Fabian Society and entitled The Impossibilities of Anarchism, which explains why, owing to the physical constitution of our globe, society cannot effectively organize the production of its food, clothes and housing, nor distribute them fairly and economically on any anarchic plan: nay, that without concerting our social action to a much higher degree than we do at present we can never get rid of the wasteful and iniquitous welter of a little riches and a deal of poverty which current political humbug calls our prosperity and civilization.
Abstract expressionist paintings hung on the walls, splotches of colors communicating a welter of emotions.
And in this welter of spoiled treasure were the great conjuring books hurled amid the ruin of retorts and aludels of glass and lead and silver, sand-baths, matrasses, spatulae, athanors, and other instruments innumerable of rare design, tossed and broken on the chamber floor.
Dust billowed from among the russet grass blades bringing General Radescu a flashback of a hillside descending in a welter of Molt bodies as the penetrators lifted it from within.
The warmth was of the meagerest, and the street lamps, birds of fire in cages of glass, fluttered and danced in the prolonged gusts of the trade wind that threshed and weltered in the city streets from off the ocean.
The Sykerst mail jolted forward, nearly pitching Kyra, Spens, and their two squabbling seat mates into the welter of red coat, striped skirt, and diapers opposite them.
A welter of utterly alien senses spilt like invisible guts from the ragged hole.
Nay, it should be realized by every judicious promoter of the Faith that at such an early stage in the evolution and crystallization of the Cause such discriminating and precautionary measures are inevitable and even necessary if the nascent institutions of the Faith are to emerge triumphant and unimpaired from the present welter of confused and often conflicting interests with which they are surrounded.
Pphira had become separated from the unireme long before she struck the reef and went down in a churning welter of fifty foot waves.
And what a welter of unseemliness and disorder and stupidity and bad manners!
The screaming mage collapsed, leg nigh on cut off, and died in a welter of unstaunchable bleeding.
At such times the cure, sitting at piquet with Madame de Sevenie, after dinner, would cough distressingly and, reminded that he had a bed to reach somehow through all this welter, anathematise the elements, help himself to a pinch of snuff, and proceed with his play.
Incredibly, he was still trying to rise, scrabbling with his left hand for a fingerhold amid the welter of buttons and controls built into the top of the enormous desk.
The hinds flash across our vision like the figures in a magic lantern, and the stag lies weltering in his couch.
But it is from that welter of qualified individuals, who meet specified minimum standards, that juries are to be chosen.