To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion. The smoldering dust did round about him smoke. Spenser.
To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.
To smother; to suffocate; to choke. [Obs.] Holinshed. Palsgrave.
Smoke; smother. [Obs.] The smolder stops our nose with stench. Gascoigne.
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