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Welt   /wɛlt/   Listen
Welt

noun
1.
A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions.  Synonyms: wale, weal, wheal.
2.
A raised or strengthened seam.
verb
(past & past part. welted; pres. part. welting)
1.
Beat severely with a whip or rod.  Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, whip.  "The children were severely trounced"
2.
Put a welt on.





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"Welt" Quotes from Famous Books



... thermometer stood at 116 deg.. The heat made of everything a solitude. Frawley, lifeless, stifling, and numbed, glued himself to the air-holes with eyes fastened on the horizon, while the train sped across the naked, singeing back of the plains like the welt that springs to meet the fall of the lash. For two nights he watched the distended sun, exhausted by its own madness, drop back into the heated void, and the tortured stars rise over the stricken desert. At the end ...
— Murder in Any Degree • Owen Johnson
... career was removed, his veneration for the dead man remained with him through life, and on one occasion found expression in a curious tribute to his memory in a dedication (which was not, however, printed) to the second edition of Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung. "That I could make use of and cultivate in a right direction the powers which nature gave me," he concludes, "that I could follow my natural impulse and think and work for countless others without the help of any one; for that I thank ...
— Essays of Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer
... a finger had crossed Mowbray's face laterally under the eyes and across his nostrils, leaving a gray welt. ...
— Red Fleece • Will Levington Comfort
... indignation against the baron, in her fretful impatience of Allan, one thing was ever dominant and obtrusive; one thing she tried to put away, but could not,—the handsome, colorless face of Major Van Zandt, with the red welt of her riding-whip ...
— Thankful Blossom • Bret Harte
... bank, the cashier lay back across a desk with a gag in his mouth and his hands and feet tied, and with a welt on the side of his head that swelled and bled sluggishly for a while and then stopped and became an angry purple. Where the gold had been stacked high in the sunshine the marble glistened whitely, with not so much as a five-dollar piece to give it a touch of color. ...
— The Heritage of the Sioux • B.M. Bower


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