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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..

Wheal :: Wheal (n.) A pustule; a whelk.

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

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

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..

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

Welking :: Welking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wel.

Welk :: Welk (n.) A whelk.

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

Gavelkind :: Gavelkind (n.) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent..

Whelky :: Whelky (a.) Having whelks, ridges, or protuberances; hence, streaked; striated..

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

Whelk :: Whelk (n.) A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.

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

Nassa :: Nassa (n.) Any species of marine gastropods, of the genera Nassa, Tritia, and other allied genera of the family Nassidae; a dog whelk. See Illust. under Gastropoda..

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..

Spelk :: Spelk (n.) A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.

Belk :: Belk (v. t.) To vomit.

Whilk :: Whilk (n.) A kind of mollusk, a whelk..

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