Welt

Noun

 * 1) A raised mark on the body caused by a blow; a wheal or weal.
 * 2)  A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling.
 * 3) A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.

Verb

 * 1) To cause to have welts, to beat.
 * 2) To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.

Thesaurus
abscess, aposteme, bash, bat, beading, bed sore, belt, bilge, binding, birthmark, blackhead, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, blob, boil, bop, bordering, bordure, boss, bow, bubble, bubo, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, bunion, burl, button, cahot, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, chine, cicatrix, clump, cold sore, comedo, condyle, convex, crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dowel, dress down, ear, edging, eschar, fault, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fimbria, fimbriation, fistula, flange, flap, flaw, flax, flounce, freckle, frill, frilling, fringe, furbelow, furuncle, furunculus, gall, galloon, gathering, give a dressing-down, gnarl, gumboil, handle, hem, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, hide, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, keloid, kibe, kink, knob, knot, knur, knurl, larrup, lather, leather, lentigo, lesion, lick, lip, list, loop, lump, milium, mole, motif, mountain, needle scar, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, paddle, papilloma, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, peg, petechia, piles, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pound, pustule, rib, ridge, rift, ring, rising, ruffle, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, selvage, shoulder, skirting, smack, smash, soft chancre, sore, spine, split, stigma, strawberry mark, stud, sty, style, suppuration, swelling, tab, tan, track, trim, trimming, tubercle, tubercule, twist, ulcer, ulceration, valance, verruca, vesicle, wale, wallop, warp, wart, weal, wen, whack, whale, wheal, whelk, whelp, whitehead, whitlow, wound

Etymology
c.1425, a shoemaker's term. Meaning "ridge on the skin from a wound" first recorded 1800.

Noun

 * Russian: рубец


 * Russian: рант


 * Scottish Gaelic: balt


 * Scottish Gaelic: balt

Noun

 * 1) world

Etymology
Contraction of weralt:, from.

Cognate to English world:, Dutch wereld:, Swedish värld:.

Derived terms

 * Gedankenwelt
 * Weltall
 * Weltanschauung
 * Weltbaum
 * weltbekannt
 * Weltbild
 * Weltbürger
 * Weltende
 * Weltereignis
 * Weltfrieden
 * Weltkrieg
 * Weltkugel
 * weltlich
 * weltoffen
 * Weltöffentlichkeit
 * Weltraum
 * Weltrekordhalter
 * Weltschmerz
 * Weltseele
 * Weltsprache
 * Weltstadt
 * weltweit
 * Weltwunder