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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

... the armor of democracy, the Zionist movement made the self-emancipation ideal of Pinsker live in the soul of Herzl. At a number of Congresses, in his articles in Die Welt, Herzl showed how that idea had become an integral part of his life, although his first thoughts ...

— The Jewish State • Theodor Herzl

... Schlau zu Vetter Fritz, "Wie kommt es, Vetter Fritzen, Dass grad' die Reichsten in der Welt, Das ...

— Pragmatism - A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking • William James

... of democracy, the Zionist movement made the self-emancipation ideal of Pinsker live in the soul of Herzl. At a number of Congresses, in his articles in Die Welt, Herzl showed how that idea had become an integral part of his life, although his first thoughts ...

— The Jewish State • Theodor Herzl

... the present, farewell to Reineke Fuchs, and to the song in which his glory is enshrined—the Welt Bibel, Bible of this world, as Goethe called it, the most exquisite moral satire, as we will call it, which has ever been composed. It is not addressed to a passing mode of folly or of profligacy, but it touches ...

— Short Studies on Great Subjects • James Anthony Froude

... chemisch einfach oder unzersetzbar betrachten, ohne dass[5] mit Bestimmtheit gesagt werden kann, dass sie wirklich unzersetzbar sind. Aus den chemischen Grundstoffen baut sich die ganze krperliche Welt vom einfachen Mineral bis zur Pflanze ...

— German Science Reader - An Introduction to Scientific German, for Students of - Physics, Chemistry and Engineering • Charles F. Kroeh

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