Hypertext Webster Gateway: "SULTRY"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sultry \Sul"try\, a. [Compar. {Sultrier}; superl. {Sultriest}.]
[From {Sweltry}.]
1. Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry
deserts.
Such as, born beneath the burning sky And sultry
sun, betwixt the tropics lie. --Dryden.
2. Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and
oppressive, as air.
When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty
mountain plant. --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sultry
adj 1: sexually exciting or gratifying; "sensual excesses"; "a
sultry look"; "a sultry dance" [syn: {sensual}]
2: characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer
was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere";
"the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm" [syn:
{stifling}, {sulfurous}, {sulphurous}]
3: burning hot; extremely and unpleasantly hot; "the torrid
noonday sun"; "sultry sands of the dessert" [syn: {torrid}]
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