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Welch

[welch, welsh]
–noun
1. James, born 1940, U.S. poet and novelist.
2. Joseph Nye, 1890–1960, U.S. trial lawyer.
3. Robert, Jr., 1899–1985, U.S. candy manufacturer: founder of the John Birch Society 1958.
4. William Henry, 1850–1934, U.S. medical pathologist and educator.
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welch 
1857, racing slang, "to refuse or avoid payment of money laid as a bet," probably a disparaging use of the national name Welsh.
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Welch (wělch, wělsh), William Henry. 1850-1934.

American pathologist and bacteriologist who discovered the bacteria that causes gas gangrene.

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