2. To faint; to swoon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Night she swelt for passing joy.

Spenser.

Swelt, v. t. To overpower, as with heat; to cause to faint; to swelter.

[Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Bp. Hall.

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.