[f. SMOULDER v.] The action of the verb.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 156/3. They made therin a grete smolderyng of smoke for to dysease hym.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. lxviii. 2. The smooldering itself will compel him to let in the water.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. IV. iv. Forty years of that smouldering.
1900. Westm. Gaz., 3 Oct., 2/2. Smouldering is often more difficult to deal with than open flame.
