[f. SWELTER v. + -ING1.] a. Fainting, swooning. b. A condition of suffering from oppressive heat.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 481/2. Swalterynge, or swownynge, sincopa. Ibid., 482/2. Sweltrynge, or swalterynge…, sincopa.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. (1598), 341. To asswage the sweltring of my hellish longing.
1657. R. Ligon, Barbadoes, 102. Neither themselves, nor any other, can remaine in them [sc. their houses] without sweltring.
1846. Jas. Hamilton, Mount of Olives, viii. 191. When the fret and worry and sweltering of their jaded day is done.
