v. Obs. and dial. form of BELCH; used in various senses, esp. in that of: To boil, to heave like a boiling fluid, to throb.
1648. Jos. Beaumont, Psyche, II. cxlvi. My guilt is hot, And belks and boils.
a. 1656. Bp. Hall, Soliloq., 61. The sting of some heinous sin, which lies belking within us.
Hence Belking vbl. sb. and ppl. a. (applied to the gout).
1640. Bp. Hall, Chr. Moder., 24/2. Thy belking gouts, thy scalding fevers, thy galling ulcers. Ibid. (1650), Balm Gil., 290. What aches of the bones, what belking of the Joynts? Ibid. (a. 1656), Serm., xx. Wks. V. 279. Girds of the colic, or belking pains of the gout.
