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/wˈɛltər/ Listen

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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"Welter" Quotes from Famous Books

... see him, for she was staring with wide eyes out at the desolate welter of water and cloud, and thinking of home: the home that was, that used to be till such a little while ago, the home that now seemed to have been so amazingly, so unbelievably beautiful and blest, with its daily life of love and laughter and of easy ...

— Christopher and Columbus • Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim

... exigencies of war to take possession of an alien land, has behaved to its inhabitants with the disinterested zeal for their progress that our people have shown in the Philippines. To leave the islands at this time would mean that they would fall into a welter of murderous anarchy. Such desertion of duty on our part would be a crime against humanity. The character of Governor Taft and of his associates and subordinates is a proof, if such be needed, of the sincerity of our effort to give the islanders a constantly increasing measure ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt

... Apollo these struck from his silver bow, And those shaft-arm'd Diana, both incensed That oft Latona's children and her own Numbering, she scorn'd the Goddess who had borne 760 Two only, while herself had twelve to boast. Vain boast! those two sufficed to slay them all. Nine days they welter'd in their blood, no man Was found to bury them, for Jove had changed To stone the people; but themselves, at last, 765 The Powers of heaven entomb'd them on the tenth. Yet even she, once satisfied with tears, Remember'd food; and ...

— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer

... grandfathers had been wont to send their disorderly and insubordinate niggers. They were packed away, as the miserable slaves had been, to taste something of the bitterness of the negro's lot. So came Bert Russell to welter in a low room whose walls gave out the stench of years. How you cooked for them, and schemed for them, and cried for them, you devoted women of the South! You spent the long hot summer in town, and every day you went with your baskets to Gratiot Street, where the infected old house stands, until—until ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... of the previous car was suddenly lost in a mass of heaving, bubble-scattered mud, like a batter of black dough. She fairly picked up the car, and flung it into that welter, through it, and back into the ...

— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis

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