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A large deer, of several species. The European elk (Alces machlis or Cervus alces) is closely allied to the American moose. The American elk, or wapiti (Cervus Canadensis), is closely related to the European stag. See Moose, and Wapiti. Irish elk (Paleon.), a large, extinct, Quaternary deer (Cervus giganteus) with wide…

The European wild or whistling swan (Cygnus ferus).

The buffalo nut. See under Buffalo.

The soft, spongy wood of a species of Magnolia (M. Umbrella).

To vomit. [Obs.]

A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent. Cowell.

A kind of shell limestone, whose strata form the middle one of the three divisions of the Triassic formation in Germany. See Chart, under Geology.

A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane. [Obs.] When ruddy Phwelk in west. Spenser. The church, that before by insensible degrees welked and impaired, now with large steps went down hill decaying. Milton.

See Whelked.

The visible regions of the air; the vault of heaven; the sky. On the welkne shoon the sterres lyght. Chaucer. The fair welkin foully overcast. Spenser. When storms the welkin rend. Wordsworth.

common on the coasts both of Europe and North America, and much used as food in Europe. Whelk tingle, a dog whelk. See under Dog.

Having whelks; whelky; as, whelked horns. Shak.

Having whelks, ridges, or protuberances; hence, streaked; striated.

Same as Yolk.

Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm. Balfour.

f a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow. The green earth's end Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend. Milton.

y color. The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, But stayed, and made the western welkin blush. Shak.

To make brown or dusky. A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves. Barlow.

genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidæ, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata.