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Welt

noun

A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions. Synonyms: wale, weal, wheal.

A raised or strengthened seam.

verb

(past & past part. welted; pres. part. welting)

Beat severely with a whip or rod. Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, whip. "The children were severely trounced"

Put a welt on.

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"Welt" Quotes from Famous Books

... on his own feet! You look at his very shoes in wonderment, and are surprised you do not find some startling difference between those shoes and your shoes. But there is none,—only yours are a trifle stouter in the welt. You think Nat one of the fortunate boys of this world,—born, as your old nurse used to say, with a gold spoon in ...

— Dream Life - A Fable Of The Seasons • Donald G. Mitchell

... gern!"... (i.e. egal is an expression of indifference, such as "it is all the same to me, I like living"). How simple and complete is the dog-point-of-view! "And is that all? didn't you wish to add something more?"... "in Welt" ( in (the) world). The expression "egal" she will probably have picked ...

— Lola - The Thought and Speech of Animals • Henny Kindermann

... haythen rubbish and cussing. The pore fule's daft wid the hate and the dust and the welt I give him. Shure it's the way I have to ...

— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield

... stood there, moaning over a pale man on the floor; blood oozed from a welt on the back of his head. There was both gratitude and resentment as she looked ...

— Police Your Planet • Lester del Rey

... conceives each particle to be animated by something like his own volition, and to be pulling as he would pull. And I suppose that this difficulty of thinking of force except as something comparable to volition, lies at the bottom of Leibnitz's doctrine of monads, to say nothing of Schopenhauer's "Welt als Wille und Vorstellung;" while the opposite difficulty of conceiving force to be anything like volition, drives another school of thinkers into the denial of any connection, save that of succession, between ...

— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley

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