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Buckie :: Buckie (n.) A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum..

Welked :: Welked (v. t.) See Whelked.

Megaceros :: Megaceros (n.) The Irish elk.

Elknut :: Elknut (n.) The buffalo nut. See under Buffalo.

Elk :: Elk (n.) Alt. of Elk.

Alecithal :: Alecithal (a.) Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm..

Moose :: Moose (n.) A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoologists is considered the same species. See Elk..

Eland :: Eland (n.) A species of large South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk..

Stag :: Stag (n.) The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti..

Hooper :: Hooper (n.) The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); -- called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk..

Whelky :: Whelky (a.) Shelly.

Welk :: Welk (n.) A pustule. See 2d Whelk.

Elke :: Elke (n.) The European wild or whistling swan (Cygnus ferus).

Operculum :: Operculum (n.) The lid closing the aperture of various species of shells, as the common whelk. See Illust. of Gastropoda..

Buccinum :: Buccinum (n.) A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).

Proboscidifera :: Proboscidifera (n. pl.) An extensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including 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..

Elk :: Elk (n.) A large deer, of several species. The European elk (Alces machlis or Cervus alces) is closely allied to the American moose. The American elk, or wapiti (Cervus Canadensis), is closely related to the European stag. See Moose, and Wapiti..

Yelk :: Yelk (n.) Same as Yolk.

Muschelkalk :: Muschelkalk (n.) A kind of shell limestone, whose strata form the middle one of the three divisions of the Triassic formation in Germany. See Chart, under Geology..

Welk :: Welk (v. t.) To contract; to shorten.

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