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welk

verb intransitive

[G., to wither, to fade, to decay; primarily to shrink or contract, as things in drying, whence the Saxon weole, a whilk or whelk, a shell; from its wrinkles.]

To decline; to fade; to decay; to fall. When ruddy Phoebus gins to welk in west.

welk

verb transitive
To contract; to shorten. Now sad winter welked hath the day-- .