Belk vs Welk - What's the difference?
belk | welk |
(obsolete) Of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.
(obsolete) To diminish; to lose brightness, to wane.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i.23:
* Milton
(dialectal) to soak, .
(dialectal) to thrash, beat severely.
To contract; to shorten.
* Spenser
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between belk and welk
is that belk is (obsolete) to vomit while welk is (obsolete) to diminish; to lose brightness, to wane.As verbs the difference between belk and welk
is that belk is (obsolete) to vomit while welk is (obsolete) of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.As a noun welk is
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English
Verb
(en verb)- As gentle Shepheard in sweete euentide, / When ruddy Phoebus gins to welke in west [...].
- The church, that before by insensible degrees welked and impaired, now with large steps went down hill decaying.
- Now sad winter welked hath the day.