balk (2 cf. ‘in stryfful termes . . . to balke,’ Spenser)
1.
to let slip, fail to use,
&c. Tw.N. III. ii. 27,
Lucr. 696
“altogether balk The
prey.”
2.
“balk logic,” to chop
logic, bandy words Shr. I. i.
34.