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Welk [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To decline; to fade; to decay; to fall.

2. When ruddy Phoebus gins to welk in west.

Welk [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To contract; to shorten.

2. Now sad winter welked hath the day-- [This word is obsolete. But its signification has heretofore been misunderstood.]

Welk [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A pustule. See 2d Whelk.

2. A whelk.

Welk [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane.

Welk [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cause to wither; to wilt.

2. To contract; to shorten.

3. To soak; also, to beat severely.

Welked [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. or adjective Contracted into wrinkles or ridges.

2. --Horns welkd and wavd like the enridged sea.

Welked [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Welked [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Whelked.

Welkin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The visible regions of the air; the vault of heaven. [This is obsolete, unless in poetry.]

2. WELKIN eye, in Shakespeare, is interpreted by Johnson, a blue eye, from welkin the sky; by Todd, a rolling eye, from Sax. Wealcan, to roll; and by Entick, a languishing eye. See Welk . It is obsolete, at least in New England.

Welkin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The visible regions of the air; the vault of heaven; the sky.

Welking [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Fading; declining; contracting.

Welking [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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