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1. (v.i.) welsh
to fail to pay what is owed (often fol. by on):
welshed on his gambling debts.
2. welsh
to go back on one's word (often fol. by on):
to welsh on a promise.
3. (n.) Welsh
(used with a pl. v.)
4. Welsh
the inhabitants of Wales.
5. Welsh
natives of Wales or persons of Welsh ancestry living outside Wales.
6. Welsh
the Celtic language of Wales, now spoken mainly in the W and N parts.
7. (adj.) Welsh
of or pertaining to Wales, its inhabitants, or the language Welsh.
Etymology: (bef. 900; ME Welische, OE Welisc, der. of Walh Briton, foreigner (cf. L Volcae a Gallic tribe); c. G welsch foreign, Italian)
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| Definition of 'WELSH' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) Welshman, Welsh, Cambrian, Cymry
a native or resident of Wales
2. (noun) Welsh, Cymric
a Celtic language of Wales
3. (adj) Welsh, Welsh Black
a breed of dual-purpose cattle developed in Wales
4. (verb) Welsh, Cambrian
of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language
"the Welsh coast"; "Welsh syntax"
5. (verb) welsh, welch
cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt
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| Definition of 'WELSH' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) WELSH
of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants
2. (noun) WELSH
the language of Wales, or of the Welsh people
3. (noun) WELSH
the natives or inhabitants of Wales
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. WELSH
or Welch, John, a Scottish divine, a Nithsdale man; became Presbyterian minister of Ayr, and was distinguished both as a preacher and for his sturdy opposition to the ecclesiastical tyranny of James VI., for which latter he suffered imprisonment and exile; he was an ancestor of Jane Welsh Carlyle, and was married to a daughter of John Knox, who, when the king thought to win her over by offering her husband a bishopric, held out her apron before sovereign majesty, and threatened she would rather kep (catch) his head there than that he should live and be a bishop; she figures in the chapter in "Sartor" on Aprons, as one of Carlyle's apron-worthies (1570-1625).
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