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Welch
(gcide) | Welch \Welch\, a.
See Welsh. [R.]
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Welch
(gcide) | Welsh \Welsh\, a. [AS. w[ae]lisc, welisc, from wealh a stranger,
foreigner, not of Saxon origin, a Welshman, a Celt, Gael;
akin to OHG. walh, whence G. w[aum]lsch 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. [Sometimes
written also Welch.]
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Welsh flannel, a fine kind of flannel made from the fleece
of the flocks of the Welsh mountains, and largely
manufactured by hand.
Welsh glaive, or Welsh hook, a weapon of war used in
former times by the Welsh, commonly regarded as a kind of
poleax. --Fairholt. --Craig.
Welsh mortgage (O. Eng. Law), a species of mortgage, being
a conveyance of an estate, redeemable at any time on
payment of the principal, with an understanding that the
profits in the mean time shall be received by the
mortgagee without account, in satisfaction of interest.
--Burrill.
Welsh mutton, a choice and delicate kind of mutton obtained
from a breed of small sheep in Wales.
Welsh onion (Bot.), a kind of onion (Allium fistulosum)
having hollow inflated stalks and leaves, but scarcely any
bulb, a native of Siberia. It is said to have been
introduced from Germany, and is supposed to have derived
its name from the German term w[aum]lsch foreign.
Welsh parsley, hemp, or halters made from hemp. [Obs. &
Jocular] --J. Fletcher.
Welsh rabbit. See under Rabbit.
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welch
(wn) | welch
v 1: cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt [syn: welsh,
welch] |
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welcher
(encz) | Welcher,Welcher n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
welches
(encz) | Welches, |
welcher
(czen) | Welcher,Welchern: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
welcher
(gcide) | Welsher \Welsh"er\, 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. [Written also
welcher.] [Slang, Eng.]
[1913 Webster]Welcher \Welch"er\, n.
See Welsher.
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Welcher
(gcide) | Welsher \Welsh"er\, 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. [Written also
welcher.] [Slang, Eng.]
[1913 Webster]Welcher \Welch"er\, n.
See Welsher.
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Welchman
(gcide) | Welchman \Welch"man\, n.
See Welshman. [R.]
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welch
(wn) | welch
v 1: cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt [syn: welsh,
welch] |
welcher
(wn) | welcher
n 1: someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager
[syn: welcher, welsher] |
lempel-ziv welch compression
(foldoc) | Lempel-Ziv Welch compression
LZW compression
(LZW) The algorithm used by the Unix compress command to
reduce the size of files, e.g. for archival or transmission.
LZW was designed by Terry Welch in 1984 for implementation in
hardware for high-performance disk controllers. It is a
variant of LZ78, one of the two Lempel-Ziv compression
schemes.
The LZW algorithm relies on reoccurrence of byte sequences
(strings) in its input. It maintains a table mapping input
strings to their associated output codes. The table initially
contains mappings for all possible strings of length one.
Input is taken one byte at a time to find the longest initial
string present in the table. The code for that string is
output and then the string is extended with one more input
byte, b. A new entry is added to the table mapping the
extended string to the next unused code (obtained by
incrementing a counter). The process repeats, starting from
byte b. The number of bits in an output code, and hence the
maximum number of entries in the table is usually fixed and
once this limit is reached, no more entries are added.
LZW compression and decompression are licensed under Unisys
Corporation's 1984 U.S. Patent 4,558,302 and equivalent
foreign patents. This kind of patent isn't legal in most
coutries of the world (including the UK) except the USA.
Patents in the UK can't describe algorithms or mathematical
methods.
[A Technique for High Performance Data Compression, Terry A.
Welch, IEEE Computer, 17(6), June 1984, pp. 8-19]
[J. Ziv and A. Lempel, "A Universal Algorithm for Sequential
Data Compression," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,
Vol. IT-23, No. 3, May 1977, pp. 337-343].
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WELCH MORTGAGE
(bouvier) | WELCH MORTGAGE, Eng. law, contracts. A species of security which partakes of
the nature of a mortgage, as there is a debt due, and an estate is given as
a security for the repayment, but differs from it in the circumstances that
the rents and profits are to be received without account till the principal
money is paid off, and there is no remedy to enforce payment, while the
mortgagor has a perpetual power of redemption.
2. It is a species of vivum vadium. Strictly, however, there is this
distinction between a Welch mortgage and a vivum vadium. In the latter the
rents and profits of the estate are applied to the discharge of the
principal, after paying the interest; while in the former the rents and
profits are received in satisfaction of his interest only. 1 Pow. Mortg.
373, a.
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