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Webster 1913 Edition


Whelked

Whelked

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

Definition 2024


whelked

whelked

English

Adjective

whelked (not comparable)

  1. Having whelks; whelky.
  • He had a thousand noses, / Horns whelked and waved like the enragèd sea. /

It was some fiend. Shakespeare, King Lear, Act IV, Scene 6