Found 6 hits - Term: weal, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
weal \weal\, n.
the mark of a stripe. see wale.
1913 webster
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wale
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
weal \weal\, v. t.
to mark with stripes. see wale.
1913 webster
see also:
wale
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
weal \weal\, n. oe. wele, as. wela, weola, wealth, from wel
well. see well, adv., and cf. wealth.
1913 webster
1. a sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or
thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare.
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god . . . grant you wele and prosperity. --chaucer.
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as we love the weal of our souls and bodies.
--bacon.
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to him linked in weal or woe. --milton.
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never was there a time when it more concerned the
public weal that the character of the parliament
should stand high. --macaulay.
1913 webster
2. the body politic; the state; common wealth. obs.
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the special watchmen of our english weal. --shak.
1913 webster
see also:
well wealth
- [4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
weal \weal\, v. t.
to promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous. obs.
--beau. fl.
1913 webster
- [5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
weal
n : a raised mark on the skin as produced by the blow of a
whip; characteristic of many allergic reactions syn: wale,
welt, wheal
see also:
wale welt wheal
- [6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
86 moby thesaurus words for "weal":
easy street, affluence, bed of roses, birthmark, blackhead, bleb,
blemish, blister, bulla, check, cicatrix, clover, comedo, comfort,
crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity,
disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, ease, easy circumstances,
fault, felicity, flaw, fleshpots, freckle, gracious life,
gracious living, happiness, hemangioma, hickey, keloid, kink,
lap of luxury, lentigo, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luxury,
milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark,
port-wine mark, port-wine stain, prosperity, prosperousness,
pustule, rift, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, security,
split, strawberry mark, sty, success, the affluent life,
the good life, thriving condition, track, twist, upward mobility,
velvet, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, wealth, welfare,
well-being, welt, wen, whelk, whelp, whitehead
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