whelk1 (hwelk)

[ Boras, ceruce, ne oille of tartre noon, Ne oynement that wolde clense and byte, That him mighte helpen of his whelkes whyte. Chaucer , Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 632. One Bardolph, if your majesty know the man; his face is all bubukles, and whelks , and knobs, and flames o' fire. whelp hvalf = Dan. hvælv, a vault, arch; cf. Gr. κόλπος, bosom, gulf (see gulf ).] I. trans. 1. To throw Over so as to cover. [Prov. Eng.] I whelme an hollo we thyng over an other thyng. Je met de us. Whelme a platter upon it, to save it from flyes. Palsgrave , p. 780. Hill upon hill whelmed upon it [the church], nay, [it lay! like a grain of corn between the upper and lower mill-stone, ground to dust between tyrants and heretics. Donne, Sermons, xvii. 2. To engulf; submerge; cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; overwhelm. She is my prize, or ocean whelm them all. IMG:content-2276.png:[graphic] We perish'd, each alone; Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 2. 143 But I beneath a rougher sea, Cowper , The Cast-away. And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he. IMG:content-2277.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2278.png:[blocks in formation] The whelk and barnacle are clinging to the hardened sand. Geikie , Geol. Sketches, ii. Reversed whelk, Fulgur perversa. - Ribbon whelk, one of the large whelks which spin out a ribbon or ruffle of egg-cases, as Fulgur (or Busycon ) carica and Sycotypus canaliculatus; a hairy whelk. [Local, U. S.] - Rough whelk, Urosalpinx cinerea, the borer or drill. See cut under Urosalpinx. (See also dog - whelk.) whelked (hwelkt), a. [An erroneous form of welked, early mod. E. wealked; Look up at its [the tree's] towering expanse of branches, observe its whelked and furrowed bole, and try to clasp it round. A. S. Palmer , Word Hunter's Note-Book, iv. whelk-tingle (hwelk'tin"gl), n. A kind of dogwhelk, Na a reticulata , common on the English coast. See cut under dog - whelk . [Eng.] whelkylt (hwel'ki), a. [ whelk1 + -yl.] Abounding in whelks, pustules, or blisters. Pluck stood sunk to his chin in the snow, and laughed as heartily as any of them, his shining bald pate and whelky red face streaming with moisture and shaking with merriment. S. Judd , Margaret, i. 17. whelky2 (hwel'ki), a. [Prop. welky; Ne ought the whelky pearles esteemeth hee, Which are from Indian seas brought far away. Spenser, Virgil's Gnat, 1. 105. whelm (hwelm), v. [ IMG:content-2279.png:[blocks in formation] Dryden, Don Sebastian, i. 1. whelp (hwelp), n. [ whelp , welp , hweolp , hwelp , hwelp = OS. hwelp = D. welp = LG. welp = OHG. hwelf , welf , MHG. welf = Icel. hvelpr = OSw.hwalp , Sw.valp = Dan. hvalp , a whelp, the young of dogs, wolves, lions, and other beasts.] 1. The young of the dog, wolf, lion, tiger, bear, seal, etc., but especially of the dog; a cub: sometimes applied to the whole canine species, whether young or old. The Liun of Prude [Pride] haueth swuthe monie hwcolpes . Ancren Riwle , p. 198. ... Youre rede colera, parde, Which causeth folk to dremen in here dremes Of grete bestes, that they wol hem byte, Of contek, and of whelpes grete and lyte. Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 112. 2 Sam. xvii. 8. A bear robbed of her whelps . The son [Caliban] that she did litter here, A freckled whelp hag-born. Shak . , Tempest, i. 2. 283. Both mongrel, puppy, whelp , and hound, And curs of low degree. Goldsmith, Elegy on Death of a Mad Dog. 2. A youth; a cub; a puppy: a term of contempt. On one of the back benches. sat the villainous whelp , sulky to the last, whom he had the misery to call his son. Dickens, Hard Times, iii. 7. 3t. A kind of ship. 25 July, 1635. About six hour I went aboard one of the king's ships called the ninth whelp , which is in the king's books 215 ton and tonnage in king's books. She carries sixteen pieces of ordinance. This ship is manned with sixty men. Brereton, Travels, p. 164. (Davies.) Four of the king's ships and six merchant ships are to go for the coast of Ireland, to beat the Turks thence. And the occasion was this: Captain Plumley was sent thither with one of the ships royal and two whelps to seek out Nutt the pirate. Court and Times of Charles I., II. 186. 4. Naut., one of several longitudinal projections from the barrel of a capstan, windla , or winch, provided to take the strain of the chain or rope which is being hove upon, and afford a firmer hold.-5. One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel. E. H. Knight.