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A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).

A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum. [Scot.] Deil's buckie, a perverse, refractory youngster. [Slang]

ed from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner. "A suit of buff." Shak.

To fix or demand as a prince; as, he charges two dollars a barrelk for apples.

oint, esp. on the toees, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome. Welkome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes Unplagued with corns, will have a bout with you. Shak.

To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands. Burrill.

hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk.

.'b8 Milton. To the generous decision of a female mind, we owe the discovery of America. Belknap.

an whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); -- called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk.

Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland. Irish elk. (Zoöl.) See under Elk. -- Irish moss. (a) (Bot.) Carrageen. (b) A preparation of the same made into a blanc mange. -- Irish poplin. See Poplin. -- Irish potato, the ordinary white potato, so called because it is a favorite article of…

A substance of a strongly marked yellow color, extracted from the yelk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.

The Irish elk.

large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoölogists is considered the same species. See Elk. Moose bird (Zoöl.), the Canada jayor whisky jack. See Whisky jack. -- Moose deer. Same as Moose. -- Moose yard (Zoöl.), a locality where moose, in winter, herd…

pods, of the genera Nassa, Tritia, and other allied genera of the family Nassidæ; a dog whelk. See Illust. under Gastropoda. -- nas"soid, a.

The lid closing the aperture of various species of shells, as the common whelk. See Illust. of Gastropoda.

Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure. The welkin pitched with sullen could. Addison.

g those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle.

a ratting noise. Sound but another [drum], and another shall As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear. Shak.

of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append.

A yellow cylindrical mass of egg capsule of certain species of whelks (Buccinum), which resembles an ear of maize.