Wel·ter v. i. [imp. & p. p. Weltered p. pr. & vb. n. Weltering.]
1. To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.
When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards. --Latimer.
These wizards welter in wealth's waves. --Spenser.
He must not float upon his watery bier
Unwept, and welter to the parching wind,
Without the meed of some melodious tear. --Milton.
The priests at the altar . . . weltering in their blood. --Landor.
2. To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows. “The weltering waves.”
Waves that, hardly weltering, die away. --Wordsworth.
Through this blindly weltering sea. --Trench.