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, 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.

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

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]

ropods, 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.

ing 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.

ny 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.

To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to. Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea. Shak.

A pustule. See 2d Whelk.

See Whelked.

A pustule; a whelk. Wiseman.

A kind of mollusk, a whelk. [Prov. Eng.]

See Whelk. [Obs.]