welterweight (welterwat)

[Appar. weight for age. we welt-guide (welt'gid), n. An attachment to a shoe-sewing machine for presenting the welt in the machine in position for sewing wing in. to raise welts on a person or an animal by blows with a whip. See welt2, v. t., 2 welt2 (welt), v. t. [ welting t., 2. [Colloq.] thing called a welt: as, to welt shoes. If any be sicke, a speare is set vp in his Tent with blacke Felt welted about it, and from thenceforth no Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 412. stranger entereth therein. Wit's as suitable to guarded coats as wisdom is to welted Chapman, Monsieur D'Olive, iv. 1. gowns. cla of bookmaker by surprise - welshing was decided to be an indictable offence. Nineteenth Century, XXVI. 859. He stakes his money with one of the book-makers whom he has seen at his stand for many years, with the certainty that he will receive his winnings, and run no risk of being welshed. Daily Telegraph, March 12, 1887. ( Encyc. Dict.) wilt; wither; become soft or flabby, as from decay; become ropy or stringy, as some liquors. [Prov. Eng.] Her coodn't lave 'ouze by rais on of the Christmas bakkon com in' on, and zome o' the cider welted. R. D. Black more, Lorna Doone, ii.