a. [ AS. wælisc, welisc, from wealh a stranger, foreigner, not of Saxon origin, a Welshman, a Celt, Gael; akin to OHG. walh, whence G. wälsch or welsch, Celtic, Welsh, Italian, French, Foreign, strange, OHG. walhisc; from the name of a Celtic tribe. See Walnut. ] Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants.
Welsh flannel,
Welsh glaive,
Welsh hook
Welsh mortgage (O. Eng. Law),
Welsh mutton,
Welsh onion (Bot.),
Welsh parsley,
Welsh rabbit.
n. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ The Welsh call themselves Cymry, in the plural, and a Welshman Cymro, and their country Cymru, of which the adjective is Cymreig, and the name of their language Cymraeg. They are a branch of the Celtic family, and a relic of the earliest known population of England, driven into the mountains of Wales by the Anglo-Saxon invaders. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. & i.
n. One who cheats at a horse race; one who bets, without a chance of being able to pay; one who receives money to back certain horses and absconds with it.
n.;
n. same as