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Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants.
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The language of Wales, or of the Welsh people.
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The natives or inhabitants of Wales.
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A name derived from the continental Volcae, which came to be applied indiscriminately to all Western European inhabitants of the Roman Empire. In Britain the word Welsh was probably first applied to speakers of Latin; on the Continent, variants such as Walloon, Wallon, Waalsch, Welsch, Velsk, and Vlach are still applied to the French, the Italians and the Romanians.
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To cheat by avoiding payment of bets; -- said esp. of an absconding bookmaker at a race track.
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To avoid dishonorably the fulfillment of a pecuniary obligation.
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cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt
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To fail to pay a gambling bet.
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