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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Dungeness crab, Japanese crab, abscess, aposteme, bed sore, blain, bleb, blister, blue point, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, chilblain, clam, cold sore, coquillage, crab, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, eschar, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, gumboil, hemorrhoids, kibe, langouste, lesion, limpet, littleneck clam, lobster, mussel, oyster, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, periwinkle, petechia, piles, pimple, pock, polyp, prawn, pustule, quahog, rising, scab, scallop, shellfish, shrimp, snail, soft chancre, soft-shell crab, sore, steamer, stigma, sty, suppuration, swelling, tubercle, ulcer, ulceration, wale, weal, welt, wheal, whelp, whitlow, wound
Dictionary Results for whelk:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
whelk
    n 1: large marine snail much used as food in Europe
    2: large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and
       intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell
    v 1: gather whelk

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Whelk \Whelk\ (hw[e^]lk), n. [OE. welk, wilk, AS. weoloc, weloc,
   wiloc. Cf. Whilk, and Wilk.] (Zool.)
   Any one numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging
   to Buccinum and allied genera; especially, Buccinum
   undatum, common on the coasts both of Europe and North
   America, and much used as food in Europe.
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   Whelk tingle, a dog whelk. See under Dog.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Whelk \Whelk\, n. [OE. whelke, dim. of whele. See Wheal a
   pustule.]
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   1. A papule; a pustule; acne. "His whelks white." --Chaucer.
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   2. A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.
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   Chin whelk (Med.), sycosis.

   Rosy whelk (Med.), grog blossom.
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