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Definition of Swelted
1. swelt [v] - See also: swelt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swelted
Literary usage of Swelted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"Rice is swelted by being laid in milk and subjected to heat before the eggs and
sugar ... swelted or SWELTERED, part, (i) swelled, as rice for a pudding. ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester by Robert Holland (1886)
"Rice is swelted by being laid in milk and subjected to heat before the eggs and
sugar ... swelted or SWELTERED, part, (i) swelled, as rice for a pudding. ..."
3. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"... and swelted For sorwe of hise (Death's) ... 'She fairly swelted when she heard
it.' Wb. Gl. Swerd, s'erd. Pr. of Sword. Comp. ..."
4. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1891)
"Many a lovely lady, and lemans of knights, swooned and swelted for sorrow of
Death's dints." But " Conscience of his courtesy to Nature he besought, ..."
5. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain (1896)
"... I was so inspired and so all swelted up with beautiful thoughts and fancies ;
but that would have been too many to sing or recite before a company, ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"Rice is swelted by being laid in milk and subjected to heat before the eggs and
sugar ... swelted or SWELTERED, part, (i) swelled, as rice for a pudding. ..."
7. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester by Robert Holland (1886)
"Rice is swelted by being laid in milk and subjected to heat before the eggs and
sugar ... swelted or SWELTERED, part, (i) swelled, as rice for a pudding. ..."
8. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"... and swelted For sorwe of hise (Death's) ... 'She fairly swelted when she heard
it.' Wb. Gl. Swerd, s'erd. Pr. of Sword. Comp. ..."
9. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1891)
"Many a lovely lady, and lemans of knights, swooned and swelted for sorrow of
Death's dints." But " Conscience of his courtesy to Nature he besought, ..."
10. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain (1896)
"... I was so inspired and so all swelted up with beautiful thoughts and fancies ;
but that would have been too many to sing or recite before a company, ..."
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