To droop; to wither, as plants or flowers cut or plucked off.--Holloway. A word common in the United States, and provincial in England, where welk and welt are used in the same sense.--Worcester.
Miss Amy pinned a flower to her breast; and when she died, she held the wilted fragments close in her hand.--Margaret, p. 213.
Some cotton fellar here bid sixty dollars [for the slave], and she wilted right down.--Robb, Squatter Life.