yelk
Americannoun
noun
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Beat and mingle these well together with the yelk of two new-laid eggs boiled hard, and pour it over your sallet, stirring it well together.
From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by Kitchiner, William
The layer of organic units lying in contact with the yelk must be those through which the yelk is absorbed; and so must be adapted to the absorbent office.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert
There was apparently nothing remarkable about it, but by unscrewing, it came apart, and disclosed the yelk of gold.
From Views a-foot by Taylor, Bayard
Only the formative yelk undergoes cleavage, the nutritive yelk not dividing at all at first.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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