ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
1. Exuded like sweat (as if) by heat. Only in sweltered venom in and after Shaks.; cf. prec. 4.
1605. Shaks., Macb., IV. i. 8. Toad, that vnder cold stone … ha’s … Sweltred Venom sleeping got.
1814. Moore, Anacreontic, To Plumassier, 33. Books, that, far from every eye, In ‘swelter’d venom sleeping’ lie!
1856. F. E. Paget, Owlet of Owlst., 57. They produce their most sweltered venom.
2. Bathed in, or oppressed with, great heat.
1798. Coleridge, Fire, Famine, & Slaughter, 53. It was so rare a piece of fun To see the sweltered cattle run.
1821. Clare, Vill. Minstr., I. 108. The rose reviving blows Upon the swelter’d bower.
