Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See whelked.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb See whelked.

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Examples

  • Thys welked [42] flourette wylle a leson telle: 50

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Horns welked and waved, like the enridged _sea_. '

    The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

  • Thus thought Dwining, as, returned from his visit to Sir John Ramorny, he added the gold he had received for his various services to the mass of his treasure; and, having gloated over the whole for a minute or two, turned the key on his concealed treasure house, and walked forth on his visits to his patients, yielding the wall to every man whom he met and bowing and doffing his bonnet to the poorest burgher that owned a petty booth, nay, to the artificers who gained their precarious bread by the labour of their welked hands.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • Thus thought Dwining, as, returned from his visit to Sir John Ramorny, he added the gold he had received for his various services to the mass of his treasure; and, having gloated over the whole for a minute or two, turned the key on his concealed treasure house, and walked forth on his visits to his patients, yielding the wall to every man whom he met and bowing and doffing his bonnet to the poorest burgher that owned a petty booth, nay, to the artificers who gained their precarious bread by the labour of their welked hands.

    The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801

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