From en.wiktionary.org:
[Welter]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], equivalent to [en]. Cognates include [nds-de], [non] ([da]), [de],
[got]. Akin to [en] and [la].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A general confusion or muddle , especially of a large number of items.
2. * [chapter=9]
3. * [chapter=1]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. A tossing or rolling about.
***** Translations
[general confusion or muddle]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom] [tossing or rolling about] [trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To roll around; to wallow .
2. * [year=1622]
3. * [III]
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1819 | author=w:Percy Bysshe Shelley | title=Lines Written among the Euganean Hills | lines=11–18 | url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/html/1807/4350/poem1895.html
|passage=And behind, the tempest fleet<br>Hurries on with lightning
feet,<br>Riving sail, and cord, and plank,<br>Till the ship has almost
drank<br>Death from the o’er-brimming deep;<br>And sinks down, down, like that
sleep<br>When the dreamer seems to be<br> WELTERING through eternity;}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1824 | author=w:Walter Savage Landor | chapter=Conversation XVI. The Emperor Alexander and Capo d’Istria | title= 吴语: Imaginary Conversations | volume=1 | location=London | publisher=Taylor and Hessey | page=314 | url=https://archive.org/details/imaginaryconver08landgoog
|passage=You must request their advice how to avert this tremendous evil: you
must weep over the decrepid fathers of families, the virtuous wives, the
innocent children, the priests at the altar, with God in their mouths,
WELTERING in their blood.}}
1. [en] To revel , luxuriate .
2. * 1537 , [Hugh Latimer] , Sermon III, Preached to the Convocation of the Clergy, in _The Sermons of Hugh Latimer_ , London: J. Scott, 1783, Volume I, p. 38, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/sermonsofrightre01lati </sup>
3. *: When we WELTER in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards.
4. * 1579 , [Edmund Spenser] , _吴语: The Shepherd’s Calendar_ , “Ivlye” [ “July” ] , lines 197-198, in [Ernest de Sélincourt] (ed.) _Spenser’s Minor Poems_ , Oxford: Clarendon Press,1910, p. 73 <sup> see https://archive.org/details/spensersminorpoe00spenrich </sup>
5. *: These wisards WELTRE in welths waues,
6. *: pampred in pleasures deepe,
7. *: They han fatte kernes, and leany knaues,
8. *: their fasting flockes to keepe.
9. [en] To rise and fall, to tumble over, to roll.
10. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1645 | author=w:John Milton | chapter=w:On the Morning of Christ's Nativity | title= 吴语: Milton's 1645 Poems | location=London | publisher=Humphrey Moseley | section=Stanza XII, pp. 6-7 | url=https://archive.org/details/poemsofmrjohnmil00milt
|passage=Such Musick (as ’tis said)<br>Before was never made,<br>But when of
old the sons of morning sung,<br>While the Creator Great<br>His constellations
set,<br>And the well-ballanc’t world on hinges hung,<br>And cast the dark
foundations deep,<br>And bid the WELTRING waves their oozy channel keep.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1793 | author=w:William Wordsworth | chapter=An Evening Walk. Addressed to a Young Lady | title=The Poetical Works of Wordsworth | location=New York | publisher=John W. Lovell | year_published=1800 | page=17 | url=https://archive.org/details/poeticalworksofw00wrd
|passage=There, waves that, hardly WELTERING, die away,<br>Tip their smooth
ridges with a softer ray;}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1835 | author=w:Richard Chenevix Trench | chapter=The Descent of the Rhone | title=The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems | location=London | publisher=Edward Moxon | page=78 | url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=iLtUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
|passage=Many a fixed unblinking star<br>Unto them that wandering are<br>Thro’
this blindly- WELTERING sea—}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1883 | author=w:Henry James | chapter=XX. Niagara | title=Portraits of Places | url=https://archive.org/details/portraitsplaces03jamegoog | page=369 | publisher=Macmillan | location=London
|passage=The circle of WELTERING froth at the base of the Horseshoe, emerging
from the dead white vapours—absolute white, as moonless midnight is absolute
black—which muffle impenetrably the crash of the river upon the lower bed,
melts slowly into the darker shades of green.}}
1. * [Chapter 19 (see http://www.gutenberg.org/files/159/159-h/159-h.htm) ]
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1918 | author=w:Siegfried Sassoon | chapter=Noah | title=The Old Huntsman, and Other Poems | location=New York | publisher=Dutton | page=58 | url=https://archive.org/details/oldhuntsmanother00sass
|passage=All the morn old Noah marvelled greatly<br>At this WELTERING world
that shone so stately,<br>Drowning deep the rivers and the plains.}}
***** Derived terms
- [en]
***** Translations
[to roll around; to wallow]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
[trans-bottom] [to revel, luxuriate]
- German: [de]
[trans-bottom] [to rise and fall, to tumble over, to roll]
- Czech: [cs]
- German: [de]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
[en]
**** Adjective
[?]
1. Heavyweight . [of horsemen]
***** Derived terms
- [en]
***** Translations
[of horsemen, heavyweight]
- French: [fr]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 3
Compare [en] (intransitive verb).
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To wither ; to wilt .
2. * 1860 , [Isaac Taylor] , _Ultimate Civilization, and Other Essays_ , London: Bell & Dalday, “Ultimate Civilization,” Part I, IV, p. 40, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/ultimateciviliza00taylrich </sup>
3. *: But look now into the WELTERED hearts and blighted memories of those whom we have gathered from out of the thousands of the lost and wretched.
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Italian
*** Etymology
[it].
*** Noun
[m]
1. welter-weight