Welter

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A general confusion or muddle, especially of a large number of items.

   “And in truth, his mind was such a welter of opposites—of the night and the blazing candles, of the shabby poet and the great Queen, of silent fields and the clatter of serving men—that he could see nothing; or only a hand.”

2. isim A tossing or rolling about.
3. fiil To roll around; to wallow.

   “[…] were it not for shame, Shame and dishonour to a soldier’s name, Upon my weapon’s point here shouldst thou fall, And welter in thy gore.”

4. fiil To revel, luxuriate.

   “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, When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards.”

5. fiil To rise and fall, to tumble over, to roll.

   “Such Musick (as ’tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator Great His constellations set, And the well-ballanc’t world on hinges hung, And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltring waves their oozy channel keep.”

6. sıfat Heavyweight. (of horsemen)

   “a welter race”

7. fiil To wither; to wilt.

   “1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization, and Other Essays, London: Bell & Dalday, “Ultimate Civilization,” Part I, IV, p. 40, 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.”

8. özel isim A surname.