Obs. exc. dial. [Cf. WELT v.3 and -ER5; the ending may have been suggested by wither. Cf. WILTER v.] intr. To wither. Hence Weltered, Weltering ppl. adjs.
1645. Bp. Hall, Remedy Discontentm., v. 24. As for Beauty, what is it, but … a flower, which with one hot Sun gleam weltreth and fals?
1657. F. Cockin, Div. Blossomes, 18. Your fading honour I esteem as dung, Earth’s weltering glory as the dirt in street.
1855. Delamer, Kitch. Gard. (1861), 62. These vermin prefer weltered and flagging leaves to those that are quite fresh.
1860. I. Taylor, Ultimate Civiliz., i. I. v. 40. The weltered hearts, and blighted memories of those whom we have … gathered from out of the lost and wretched.
1887. Kentish Gloss., Welter, to wither. ‘The leaves begin to welter.’
