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† wlak, wlach, a. Obs.
Forms: 1 wlacu, -o, wlæc, 3 wlec(c)h, wleach, 3–4 wlach, 4 wlak, 5 wlake.
[OE. wlæc, wlacu (an orig. u-stem) = MLG. wlak lukewarm (whence wlacheit ‘tepor’); cf. OS. wlakon, MLG. wla(c)ken to be tepid; the ulterior relations are doubtful. For the phonology of the final consonant cf. freck a. (ME. frek, frech).]
Lukewarm, tepid; also fig. Also advb. in wlach hot (cf. MLG. wlakwarm).
c897ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xxxvii. 269 Ða ful oft beoð mid wlacum watre ᵹelacnode. Ibid. lviii. 447 Se ðonne bið wearm, nalles wlaco, ðe god ᵹeornlice onginð, & eac ᵹeendað. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 151 Ðe wop þe man wepeð for his emcristenes wowe cumeð of þe wlache heorte. a1225Ancr. R. 400 Forði þet tu ert ase wlech bitweonen two, nouðer cold ne hot. c1290S. Eng. Leg. 319/695 Ȝif þov nimst riȝt puyr hot watur and dost cold þar-to, Þov miȝt it makien euene wlach [MS. Harl. wlak]. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VII. 522 In comparisoun to that [hote brennyng] lyȝe, oure fier is but as it were wlache hoot. c1450Bk. Hawking in Rel. Ant. I. 304 Kepe it with wlake wyn unto the tyme. |