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noun

Welter n.

That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough. "The foul welter of our so-called religious or other controversies."

A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest.

verb

Welter v. t. To wither; to wilt. (R.) "Weltered hearts and blighted... memories."

Welter v. i. (past & past part. weltered; pres. part. weltering)

To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow. "When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards." "These wizards welter in wealth's waves." "He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear." "The priests at the altar... weltering in their blood."

To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows. "The weltering waves." "Waves that, hardly weltering, die away." "Through this blindly weltering sea."

adjective

Welter adj. (Horse Racing) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Welter" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the tarpaulin for the Doctor to pass in. A pack of ravening wolves tussling over an unusually small baby might distantly reproduce the scene Saxham leaves behind him. The trestle-table and benches are upset, and men and benches, draughts and dominoes, welter in horrible confusion over the earthen floor, when the scandalised orderly-corporal rushes in to quell the riot, ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... it is like this," he answered, picking up both the telegrams; "one of our groom fellows at home has a brother who knows everything about Blackmore's stable, and he has just wired to me that Dainty Dick will win the Flying Welter at Hurst Park to-day, and I was off to back it when I get a wire from my tipster, Tom Webb, that The Philosopher can't lose the same race. It is Tom's 'double nap' and I am in a ...

— Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate • Charles Turley

... flung herself backwards, with eyes dilated and a warmth in her cheeks, the rod bending above her, and the line ripping its way towards the welter at the head of the pool. There it curved inwards a ...

— Alton of Somasco • Harold Bindloss

... that the chief agent in bringing about this decay and degradation was the gentle rain from heaven—that without the rain through the past geologic ages, the scene I looked upon would have been only one wild welter of broken or crumpled rocky strata, not a green thing, not a living thing, should I ...

— The Last Harvest • John Burroughs

... add to the sense of urgency throbbing in Gefty's nerves, while events, and the equally hard necessity to avoid a fatally mistaken move in this welter of unknown factors, kept blocking him. Now the mysterious manner in which Maulbow's unpleasant traveling companion had appeared on the main deck made it impossible to do anything but keep Kerim at his side. If Maulbow was still capable of taking a hand in matters, there was ...

— The Winds of Time • James H. Schmitz

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