Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sweltry"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sweltry \Swel"try\, a. [See {Swelter}, {Swelt}, v. i., and cf.
{Sultry}.]
Suffocating with heat; oppressively hot; sultry. [R.]
--Evelyn.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sweltry
adj : excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and
faintness; "a sweltering room"; "sweltering athletes"
[syn: {sweltering}]
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