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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—W

Wil't

or Welk, to wither. This is the Dutch and German welken (to fade). Spenser says, “When ruddy Phoebus 'gains to welk in west”—i.e. fade in the west.

“A wilted debauchee is not a fruit of the tree of life.” — J. Cook: The Orient, p. 149.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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