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WHEEN :  noun  1) a few; 2) a reasonable number. See TANLING

WHELK :  noun  pustule or welt. See BUBUKLE

WHELM :  verb  to turn up, to engulf, to cover over

And in a strangely, he could only think of it as sibylline,† tone she said, "Our evening is over us, our night whelms, whelms and will end us." [from Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves"]

--Burgess, Napoleon Symphony, p. 345.

Because I'm in pain. . . . Because the griefs ain't leaking no more, they're whelming. There's flash-flood griefs, man overboard.

--Elkin, George Mills, p. 451.

WHELM :  noun  an act or condition of being engulfed, capsized

. . . engulfed in a whelm of embarrassment. . . .

--Theroux, Three Wogs, p. 95.

WHILOM :  adj  former, once but no longer. See CONSTATATION, CONSUETUDE