See Also: Algonquin(dictionary)
Algonquin Hotel(dictionary)
Algonquin Round Table, the(dictionary)
Algonquin Power Income Fund(finance)
Whelk(medicine)
whelk(dictionary)
whelk(encyclopedia)
whelk(2)(dictionary)
whelk(1)(dictionary)
Whelk(recipes)

whelk(2) (iou) and Algonquin (iou)


whelk(2) (iou)



whelk noun2. Now chiefly dial.
[Late Old English hwylca rel. to WHEAL noun1.]
A pimple, pustule. LOE.
[By confusion.] = WEAL noun2. M18.
whelky adjective (rare) pimply E19.

Algonquin (iou)



Algonquin noun & adjective. . E17.
[French, contr. of Algoumequin: cf. Micmac algoomeaking at the place of spearing fish and eels.]
A. noun. A member of a N. American Indian people of the districts of Ottawa and Quebec; the language of this people; more widely = ALGONQUIAN noun. E17.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Of or pertaining to the Algonquin or their language; more widely = ALGONQUIAN adjective. E18.