Swel″ter (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Sweltered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Sweltering.] [From Swelt, v. i.] 1. To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat. “Sweltered cattle.” Coleridge.
2. To welter; to soak. Drayton.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.