† belk, 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 J. 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 ˈbelking vbl. n. and ppl. a. (applied to the gout).
| 1640 Bp. Hall Chr. Moder. 24/2 Thy belking gouts, thy scalding fevers, thy galling ulcers. 1650 ― Balm Gil. 290 What aches of the bones, what belking of the Joynts? a 1656 ― Serm. xx. Wks. V. 279 Girds of the colic, or belking pains of the gout. |