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Welk

Welk \Welk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Welked; p. pr. & vb. n. Welking.] [OE. welken; cf. D. & G. welken to wither, G. welk withered, OHG. welc moist. See Welkin, and cf. Wilt.] To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane.

When ruddy Ph?bus 'gins to welk in west.
--Spenser.

The church, that before by insensible degrees welked and impaired, now with large steps went down hill decaying.
--Milton.

Welk

Welk \Welk\, v. t.

  1. To cause to wither; to wilt. [Obs.]

    Mot thy welked neck be to-broke [broken].
    --Chaucer.

  2. To contract; to shorten. [Obs.]

    Now sad winter welked hath the day.
    --Spenser.

  3. To soak; also, to beat severely. [Prov. Eng.]

Welk

Welk \Welk\, n. A pustule. See 2d Whelk.

Welk

Welk \Welk\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A whelk. [R.]

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welk

Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context obsolete English) Of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay. 2 (context obsolete English) To diminish; to lose brightness, to wane. 3 (context dialectal English) to soak, steep#Etymology_2. 4 (context dialectal English) to thrash, beat severely. 5 To contract; to shorten. Etymology 2

n. (alternative form of whelk English)

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Welk

Welk is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sierakowice, within Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately southeast of Sierakowice, west of Kartuzy, and west of the regional capital GdaƄsk.

For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.

The village has a population of 104.

Welk (disambiguation)

Welk or WELK can refer to:

Usage examples of "welk".

Gesprekken, waarin zij beiden niet hadden geweten, op welk doel zij mikten.

Haar oog viel op heur horloge, aan welks ketting een zwart medaillon hing.

Toen verveelde haar de eentonigheid der zalvende woorden van den predikant en kon zij vooruit voorspellen, hoe hij zou hemelen met zijn oogen wanneer men zong, of welk gebaar zijne blanke hand zou maken, wanneer hij den zegen uitsprak.

But Welk will now place the pickup of a lie detector at your feet.

There is a bottle of Vivarin, a bottle of Serutan (That's 'Nature's' spelled backwards, the ads on Lawrence Welk used to say when Eddie Kaspbrak was but a wee slip of a lad), and two bottles of Phillips Milk of Magnesia - the regular, which tastes like liquid chalk, and the new mint flavor, which tastes like mint-flavored liquid chalk.