Welked

ppl. a. Obs. exc. dial. [f. WELK v.¹] a. Withered, faded, dried up. † b. Dulled in luster.

c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 2107. And .vii. lene [ears] riȝe ðor-bi, welkede, and smale, and druȝte numen.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Pard. T., 410. For which ful pale and welked is my face.

1387–8.  T. Usk, Test. Love, III. v. 37. Mistrust with foly, with yvel wil medled, engendreth that welked padde.

1390.  Gower, Conf., III. 357. That which was whilom grene gras, Is welked hey at time now.

c. 1425.  trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 71. Hyngyng in maner of a welked grape [pendentes instar uvae marcidae].

1426.  Lydg., De Guil. Pilgr., 16320. A drye stobyll, or … a welkyd leef. Ibid., 16325. I, the most wrechchyd Wyght off alle synners, and most dyffadyd and wylked with synne.

a. 1470.  Harding, Chron., XCV. xii. The grasse and corne, that welked were afore … waxed grene and gan reuert.

1563.  Sackville, Induct. Mirr. Mag., xii. Her wealked face with woful teares besprent.

1579.  Spenser, Sheph. Cal., Jan., 73. By that, the welked Phœbus gan auaile His weary waine.

1594.  Nashe, Terrors of Night, Wk. (Grosart), III. 258. Our faces … are most deformedlye welked and crumpled.

1603.  Drayton, Bar. Wars, VI. xxxix. There comes proude Phaeton tumbling through the cloudes,… And setting fire vppon the welked shrowds [ed. 1619 His Chariot tumbling from the welked Shrowds].

1879.  Cussans, Hertfordsh., III. 321. Shep likes tunnups better when they’re wilkt.