whelkedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

whelked (not comparable)

1. Having whelks; whelky.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:

     He had a thousand noses, / Horns whelked and waved like the enragèd sea. / It was some fiend.

参照

• “whelked”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.