yelk

American

[yelk] / yɛlk /

noun

Older Use.

yolk.

yelk British

/ jɛlk /

noun

a dialect word for yolk

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Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm.

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Bilirubin presents the former relation, while chloroform solutions of the coloring matter of the yelk of egg and of the corpus luteum, called lutein or h�molutein, are not decolorized by an alkali.

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Yolk, yōk, Yelk, yelk, n. the yellow part of an egg: the vitellus of a seed: wool-oil.—adjs.

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They wont bight nor jaw back, but they feal az raw and kold az the yelk ov an egg.

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A small dog will require the yelk of one egg; and a Newfoundland the yelks of a dozen eggs.

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