Vocabulary : Welsher to Welter

Welsher : One who cheats at a horse race; one who bets, without a chance of being able to pay; one who receives money to back certain horses and absconds with it.
Welshman : A native or inhabitant of Wales; one of the Welsh. ;; A squirrel fish. ;; The large-mouthed black bass. See Black bass.
Welshmen : of Welshman
Welsome : Prosperous; well.
Welt : That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it ;; A small cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a cord, and sewed down. ;; A hem, border, or fringe. ;; In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole. ;; In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint. ;; In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it. ;; In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed. ;; A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends. ;; To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve. ;; To wilt.

Weltanschauung : Lit., world view; a conception of the course of events in, and of the purpose of, the world as a whole, forming a philosophical view or apprehension of the universe; the general idea embodied in a cosmology.
Weltanschauungen : of Weltanschauung
Welte : imp. of Weld, to wield.
Welted : of Welt
Welter : To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow. ;; To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows. ;; To wither; to wilt. ;; Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes. ;; That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough. ;; A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest.

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