Spenser. U. a. woe. ; Took the bad omen of a shipwreck'd man, I bind, is for a stranger wept. Dryden. Qn pain of punishment, the world to weet When Darius wepí over his army, that within We stand up peerless. Slakspears, # single age not a man of all that confluence But well I weet hy cruel wrong would be left alive, Artabanus improved his me Adorns a nobler poet's song. Prior. dication by adding, that yet all of them should WE'ETLESS. adj. [from weet. [Unknown meet with so many evils, that every one should ing. wish himself dead long before. Wake. WE’EVIL. 7. s. [pegel, Sax. vevel, Dut. 2. To shed tears from any passion. curculio, Lat.) A grub. Then they for sudden joy did wesp, A worm called a weevil, bred under ground, And I for sorrow sung, That such a king should play bo-peep, feedeth upon roots, as parsnips and carrots. Buc. Corn is so innocent from breeding of mice, And go the fools among. Sbakspears. that it doth not produce the very weevils that 3. To lament; to complain. live in it and consume it. Bentley. They weep unto me, saying, Give us fesh WE'EZEL. n. s. [See WEASEL.] that we may eat. Numbers. TO WEEP. I suck melancholy out of a song, as a weazel sucks eggs. Sbakspeare. 1. To lament with tears; to bewail ; to The corn-devouring weezel here abides, bemoan. And the wise ant. Dryden. If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes. Weft. The old preterit and part. pass. Sbakspeare. from To WAVE. Nor was I near to close his dying eyes, Spenser. 'To wash his wounds, to weep his obsequies. Weft.n.s. (guaive, Fr. vofa, to wander, Islandick, vagus, Latin.] 1. That of which the claim is generally Through dreary wastes, and wep cach other's waved ; any thing wandering without Pope. an owner, and seized by the lord of the 2. To shed moisture. Thus was this place manor. A happy rural seat of various view, His horse, it is the herald's weft; Ben Forisonte Groves whose rich trees wept od'rous gums and halm. Milton. 2. It is in Bacon for waft, a gentle blast. The smell of violets exceedeth in sweetness 3. To drop. Let India boast her plants; nor envy we that of spices, and the strongest sort of smells Bacon. The weeping amber or the balmy tree, are best in a weft afar off, While by our oaks the precious loads are borne, WEFT. n. s. [pefta, Sax.] The woof of And realms commanded which thoss trees cloth. adorn. Pipe. We'FTAGÉ. n. s. [from weft.) Texture. 4. To abound with wet. The whole muscles, as they lie upon tho Rye-grass grows on clayey and weeping bones, might be truly tanned; whereby the grounds. Mortimer. weftage of the fibres night more easily be oba WE'EPER. n. s. [fron weep. ) served. Grow. 1. One who sheds tears; a lamenter; a TO WEIGH. v. a. (poegan, Sax, weyhen, bewailer ; a mourner. Dutch.] If you have served God in a holy life, send away the women and the weepers: tell them it 1. To examine by the balance. is as much intemperance to weep too much as Earth taken from land adjoining to the Nile, to laugh too much: if thou art alone, or with and preserved so as not to be wet nor wasted; fitring company, die as thou shouldst; but do and weighed daily will not alter weight until the not die impatiently, and like a fox carched in a seventeenth of June, when the river beginneth trap Taylor. to rise; and then it will grow more and more Laughter is easy: but the wonder lies, ponderous, till the river cometh to its height. Bucona What store of brine supply'd the tecper's eves. Drydenta Th' Eternal hung forth his golden scaies, 2. A white border on the sleeve of a Wherein all things created first he weigh'd. Milton mourning coat. She does not weigh her meat in a pair of WE'ERISH. adj. (See WEARISH.] This scales, but she weighs it in a much better baold word is used by Ascham in a sense lance; so much as gives a proper strength to her which the lexicographers seem nor to body, and renders it able and willing to obey the soul. have known. Applied to tastes, it means Law. insipid; applied to the body, weak and 2. To be equivalent to ili weight. They that must weigh out my afflictions, washy : here it seems to mean, sour, They that my trust must grow to, live not here; surly. They are, as all my comforts are, far bence. A voice not soft, weak, piping, womanish; Sbakspeare: but audible, strong, and manlike: a countenance By the exsuction of the air out of a glass vesa not weerisb and crabbed, but fair and comely: sel, it made that vessel cake up, or suck up, to Ascuam. speak in the common language, a body tweighing To West, V. n. preterit tot or wote. divers ounces. Boyle (ritan, Sax. queien, Dut.] To know; 3. allot, or take hy weight. to be informed ; to have knowledge. They weighed for my price thirt pieces of Obsolete. silver. Zechariab. Him the prince with gentle court did board; 4. To raise; to take up the anchor. Sir knight, njought l of you this court'sy read, Barbarossa, using this exceeding cheerfulness To weet why on your shield, so goodly scord, of his soldiers, weigbed up the fourteen gallies Bear ye the picture of that lady's head Spoikeri be bad sun! Knolles To pay, a me. may see. They having freight When gath'ring clouds o'ershadow all the skiet, Their ships with spoil enough, weigh anchor And shoot quick lightnings, weigb, my boys, he streight. Chapman. Drydes. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Dryden. And with some sweet oblivious antidote s. To examine; to balance in the mind; Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff to consider. Which weighs upon the heart? Sbakspeare. Regard not who it is which speaketh, but 5. To sink by its own weight. weigb only what is spoken. Hooker. The Indian fig boweth so low, as it taketh root I have in equal balance justly weigh'd again; the plenty of the sap, and the softness of What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we the stalk, making the bough, being overloader, suffer, weigh down, Bacon. And find our griefs heavier than our offences. We'ighed. adj. [from weigh.] Experi Sbakspeare. enced. The ripeness or unripeness of the occasion In an embassy of weight, choice was made of Bacon. must ever be well weigbed. some sad person of known experience, and cos His majesty's speedy march left that design to of a young man, not weigbed in state matters. Clarendon. be better weigbed and digested. Bacar. You chose à retreat, and not till you had ma.' WE'IGHER. 8. s. [from weigb.] He who turely weigbed the advantages of rising higher, with the hazards of the fall. Dryden. weighs. All grant him prudent; prudence interest WEIGHT. n. s. [piht, Saxon.) weighs, 1. Quantity measured by the balance. And interest bids him seek your love and praise. Tobacco cut and weighed, and then dried by Dryder.. the fire, loseth weight: and, after being laid in The mind, having the power to suspend the the open air, recovereth weigbt again. Bacer. satisfaction of any of its desires, is at liberty to Fain would I chuse a middle course to steer; examine them on all sides, and weigb them with Nature 's too kind, and justice too severe: others. Locke. Speak for us both, and to the balance bring, He is the only proper judge of our perfections, On either side, the father and the king : who weigbs the goodness of our actions by the Heav'n knows my heart is bent to favour thee; sincerity of our intentions. Spectator. Make it but scanty weigbt, and leave the rest to 6. To compare by the scales. Dryder. Here in nice balance truth with gold she So was every thing of the temple, even to the weigbs, weight of a flesh hook, given to David, as you And solid pudding against empty praise. Pope. Leik. 7. To regard; to consider as worthy of Boerhaave fed a sparrow with bread four days, notice. in which time it eat more than its own weight; I weigh not you and yet there was no acid found in its body. Arbutbnode You do not weigh me; that is, you care not for j 2. A mass by which, as the standard, other 8. To Weigh down. To overbalance. bodies are examined. Fear weighs down faith with shame. Daniel. Just balances, just weights, shall ye have. 9. To Weigh down. To overburden; Leviticus. to oppress with weight; to depress. Undoubtedly there were such weights which In thy blood will reign the physicians used, who, though they might A melancholy damp of cold and dry, reckon according to the weigbt of the money, To weigh thy spirits dozon. Milton, they did not weigh their drugs with pieces of moncy. Arbutbees. Her father's crimes Sit heavy on her, and weigb down her prayers; When the balance is entirely broke, by mighty A crown usurp'd, a lawful ' king depos'd, weigbts fallen into either scale, the power will His children murder'd. Dryden. never continue long in equal division, but run entirely into one. Suils My soul is quite weigb'd down with care, and asks 3. Ponderous mass. The soft refreshment of a moment's sleep. Add. A man leapeth better with weigbts in his Excellent persons, weigbed down by this habi- hands than without; for that the weigbs, if protual sorrow of heart, rather deserve our com- portionable, strengtheneth the sinews by conpassion than reproach. Addison. tracting them; otherwise, where no contraction TO WEIGH. V. n. is needful, weigbt hindereth; as we see, in horse 1. To have weight. races, men are curious to foresee that there be Exactly weighing, and strangling a chicken in not the least weigbe upon the one horse more the scales, upon an immediate ponderation, we than upon the other. In leaping with weights could discover no difference in weight; but suf the arms are tirst cast backwards, and then for. fering it to lie eight or ten hours, until it grew wards, with so much the greater force. Baus perfectly cold, it weigbed most sensibly lighter. Wolsey, who from his own great store night Brown. have %. To be considered as important; to A palace or a college for his grave, Lies here interr'd: have weight in the intellectual balance. Nothing but earth to earth, no pond'rous Triebt This objection ought to weigb with those, Upon him, but a pebble or a quoit : whose reading is designed for much talk and lito Ifthus thou liest neglected, what must we tle knowledge. Locke. Hope after death, who are but shreds of thee? A wise man is then best satisfied,' when he finds that the same argument which weigbs with Bisbep Corbet. All their confidence hiin has weighed with thousands before him, and is such as häch borne down all opposition. Add. Under che weight of mountains buried deep. Miltre. 3. To raise the anchor. Pride, like a gulf, swallows us up ; Qus very me. virtues, when so leavened, becoming weights I fear I have dwelt longer on this passage than and plummets to sink us to the deeper ruin. the weigbtiness of any argument in it requires. Government of tbe Tongue. Locke, The apparent defect of her judgment, joined to the weigbtiness of the adventure, caused many So vast a weight as that of love. Prior. to marvel. Hayward. 4. Gravity ; heaviness ; tendency to the Weightless.adj.[from weight.] Light; centre. having no gravity. Heaviness or weight is not here considered How by him balanc'd in the weightless air? as being such a natural quality, whereby con- Canst thou the wisdom of his works declare? densed bodies do of themselves tend downwards; Sandysa but rather as being an affection, whereby they It must both weightless and immortal prové, may be measured. Wilkins. Because the centre of it is above. Dryder. The shaft, that slightly was impress'd, WE'Ighty. adj. (from weight.] Now from his heavy fall with weight increas'd i. Heavy; ponderous. Drove through his neck. Dryden. You have already weary'd fortune so, with a transverse side blow against chat tremen She cannot farther be your friend or foc, dous weigbt and rapidity, when whole worlds are But sits all breathless, and admires to feel falling? Bentley. A fate so weighty that it stops her wheel. Dryd. 2. Important; momentous ; efficacious. Masking the business from the common eye For sundry weighty reasons. Sbakspeare. It only forbids suits in lighter losses and inAs some of the angels did scarce sooner re dignities, such as our Lord there mentions, and ceive than break the laws of obedience; so some making the law the instrument of revenge in men, by an unhappy imitation of such angels, weigbtier matters. Kettlervell, are more ready to slander the weigbt of their No fool Pythagoras was thought : yoke than to bear it. Holyday. Whilst he his weighty doctrines taught, He made his list'ning scholars stand, Their mouth still cover'd with their hand: We must those, who groan beneath the less friend to doctrine than to truth, Might have refus'd to let his ears The prince may carry the plough, but the Thus spoke to my lady the knight full of care, weight lies upon the people. L'Estrange Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Possession's load was grown so great, Stift. He sunk beneath the cumb’rous wright, Swift. 3. Rigorous; severe. Not in use. They are like so many weights upon our If, after two days shine, Athens contains thee, minds, that make us less able and less inclined Attend our weightier judgment. Slukspeare to raise up our thoughts and affections to the WE'LAWAY. interj. [ l'his I once believe things that are above. Law. ed a corruption of weal away, that is, 6. Importance ; power; influence; effi. bappiness is gone : so Junius' explained cacy; consequence; moment. it; but the Saxon exclamation is palapa, How to make ye suddenly an answer, cuoe on woe. From welaway is formed In such a point of weight, so near mine honour, In truth I know not. Shakspeare. by corruption welladay.) Alas. If this right of heir carry any weight with it, Harrow now out, and welaway, he cried, if it be the ordinance of God, must not all be What dismal day hath sent this cursed light! subject to it? Locke, Spenser. To make the sense of esteem or disgrace sink Ah, welaway, most noble lords, how can the deeper, and be of the inore weight, other Your cruel eyes endure so piteous sight? Spens. agreeable or disagreeable thiugs should constants Welatray, the while I was so tond, ly accompany these different states. Loide, To leave the good that I had in hond. Spenser. An author's arguments lose their weight, WE'LCOME, adj. [bien venu, Fr. pil. when we are persuaded that he only writes for cume, Saxon; welkom, Dutch.) argument's sake. Addison, 1. Received with gladness; admitted wil. See, Lord, the sorrows of my heart, Ere yet it be too late; lingly to any place or enjoyment; grateAnd hear my Saviour's dying groans, ful; pleasing. To give those sorrows weight. Spectator, I serve you, madam : The solemnities that encompass the magistrate Your graces are right welcome. Shakspeare add dignity to all his actions, and weight to all He, though not of the plot, will like it, his words, Atterbury. And wish it should proceed; for, unta men Prest with their wants, all change is ever wela Weightily, adv. [from weighty.] Ben Jonson. 1. Heavily; ponderously. Here let me earn my bread, 2. Solidly; importantly, Till ott invocated death Is his poetry the worse, because he makes his Hasten the welcome end of all my pains. Milton, He that knows how to make those he con. agents speak weigbtily and sententiously? Broome. verses with easy, has sound the true art of liva We'ightINESS. 1. s. [from weighty.] ing, and being welcome, and valued every where. Locke 1. Ponderosity; gravity ; heaviness, To bid Welcome. To receive with 2. Solidity ; force. professions of kindness, come a new. Some stood in a row in so civil a fashion, as if them, and so a third and fourth in subordination, to welcome us; and divers put their arms a little till it comes to the welder, as they call him, wha abroad, which is their gesture when they bid any sits at a rack-rent, and lives miserably. Secift. welcome. Bacon. Welcome. interj. A form of salutation WELFARE. n. s. [well and fare.) Hapused to a new comer, elliptically used piness; success ; prosperity. If friends to a government forbear their assist. for you are welcome. Welcome, he said, ance, they put it in the power of a few despeO long expected, my dear embrace! Dryden. rate men to ruin the welfare of those who are superior to them in strength and interest. Welcome, great monarch, to your own. Dryden. Addiser, WE'LCOME. n. S. Discretion is the perfection of reason; cus3. Salutation of a new comer. ning is a kind of instinct that only looks out Welcome ever smiles, and farewel goes out after our immediate interest and welfare. sighing. Sbakspeare. Spectator. Leontes opening his free arms, and weeping To Wlk. v.a. [Of this word in Spenser His welcome forth. Sbaispeare. I know not well the meaning: pealcan, 2. Kind receprion of a new comer. in Saxon, is to roll; wolken, in German, I should be free from injuries, and abound as much in the true causes of welcomes, as I should and pelcen, in Saxon, are clouds; whence find want of the effects thereof. Sidney. I suppose welk, or wbilk, is an undulaI look'd not for you yet, nor am provided tion or corrugation, or corrugated or For your fit welcome. Sbakspeare. convolved body. Whilk is used for a Madam, rex years may well expect to lind small shellfish ] To cloud ; to ob. Welcome froin you, to whom they are so kiad: Still as they pass they court and smile on you, scure. It seems in Spenser both active And make your beauty, as themselves, seem and neuter. Wailer. Now sad winter welled hath the day, Where diligence opens the door of the under And Phæbus weary of nis yearly task, standing, and impartiality keeps it, truth finds an Established bato his steeds in lowly lay, entrance and a welcome too. Soutb. And taken up his inn in fishes hask. Scenset TO WELCOME. V.a. To salute a new As gentle shepherd in sweet eventide ; When ruddy Phabus 'gins to welk in wes, comer with kindness. Marks which do bite their hasty supper best I know no cause Spag. Why I should welcome such a guest as grief, The welked Phobus 'gan avale Savé bidding arewel to so sweet a guest His weary wain. Speaker As my sweet Richard. Shukspearl. They stood in a row in so civil a fashion, as if WE'LKED. adj. Set with protuberances. to welcome us. Bacon. Properly, I believe, whelkeit, from Methought his eyes Were two full moons; he had a thousand nuses, Horns welk'd and wav'd like the enriús pd sea. The lark and linnet strain their warbling şbakspeare. throats, To welcome in the spring. WE'LKIN. n. s. (from pealcan, to rol, or Dryden. WELCOME to our house. n. s. [lactuca ma pelcen, clouds, Saxon.] rina, Latin.) An herb. Ainsworth. 1. The visible regions of the air. Out of We'LCOMENESS. n. s. [from welcome. ] use, except in poetry. Ne in all the welkin was no cloud. Cbazter. Gratefulness. He leaves the weldin way most beaten pla :, Our joys, after some centuries of years, may And rape with whirling wheels infiames theskyen seem to have grown older, by having been ena With fire not made to burn, but tairiv for to joyed so many ages; yet will they really still shine. Speaser. continue new, not only upon the scores of their welcomeness, but hy their perpetually equal, be The swallow peeps out of her nest, cause infinite distance from a period. And cloudy welkin cleareth. Spenser. Boyle. Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in WE'LCOMER. n. s. [from welcome.] The blood; saluter or receiver of a new comer. Amaze the welkin with your broken stares. Farewel, thou woful welcomer of glory! Svakspears. Svakspears. With feats of arms Weid, or Would, 1. s. [luteola, Latin.] From either end of heav'n the wellia burns. Yellow weed, or diers weed. Miten, To WELD, for To wield. Spenser. Now my task is smoothly done, T. WELD. To beat one mass into an. I can fly or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, other, so as to incorporate them. Where the bow d welkin slow doth bend. Miltes. Sparkling or welding heat is used when you Their hideous yells double up your iron to make it thick enough, Rend the dark weldin. Pbilips. and so weld or work in the doublings into one another. Moxon. 2. WELKIN Eye, is, I suppose, blue eyei WE'LDER. 1. 5. (a term perhaps merely skycoloured eye. Yet were it true Irish; though it may be derived from To say this boy were like me! Come, sir pze, To wield, to turn or manage : whence Look on ine with your welkin eye, sweet vuliain. wielder, welder.] Manager; actual oc Sbakspears cupier. WELL. 1, s. [pelle, pæll, Saxon.) Such immediate tenants have others under 1. A spring; a fountain ; a sources a a manner. Begin then, sisters of the sacred avell, had followed the example of Venice, in not perThat from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring. mitting her nobles to make any purchas of Milton. lands in the dominions of a foreign priace. As the root and branch are but one tree, · Adiisort. And well and stream do but one river make; 4. Being in favour. So if the root and well corrupted be, He Sllowed the fortunes of that family; and The stream and branch the same corruption take. was well with Henry the Fourth. Dryden. Davies. 5. Recovered froin any sickness or mis2. A deep narrow pit of water. fortune. Now up, now down, like buckets in a well. I am sorry Dryden. For your displeasure; but all will sure be well. The muscles are so many well-buckets, when Sbakspeare. one of them acts and draws, 'tis necessary that Just thoughts and modest expectations are the other must obey. Dryden. easily satistied. If we don't over-rate our prea 3. The cayity in which stairs are placed. tensions, all will be will. Collier, Hotlow newellsd stairs are made about a WELL.a.v. [will, Gothick; pell, Saxon; square hollow newel; suppose the well-hole to wel, Dutch; vel, Islandick. be eleven foot long, and six foot wide, and we would bring up a pair of stairs from the first floor 1. Not ill; not unhappily. eleven foot high, it being intended a sky-light Some sense, and more esiate, kind heav'n shall fall through the hollow newel. Moxon. To this well-lotted peer has given: What then? he must have rule and sway; To WELL, V. n. (peallan, Saxon.) To Else all is wrong ull he's in play. Prior. spring; to issue as from a spring. 2. Not ill; not wickedly. Thereby a crystal stream did gently play, Which from a sacred fountain welled torih al My bargains, and well-won thrift, he calls interest. Sbakspeare. way. Spenser. Thou one bad act with many deeds will done All wallow'd in his own yet lukewarm blood, Mayst cover. Mi ton. That from his wound yet welled fresh, alas! 3. Skiltully; properly; in a laudable Spenser. Himself assists to lift him from the ground, Beware, and govern well thy appetite. Milto With clotted locks, and blood that welld from Whether the Icarn d Minerva be her theme, out the would Dryden. Or chaste Diana bathing in the strean; None can record their heavenly praise so wo!). Pure willing out, he through the lucid lake Dryden. Ot tair Danibea roils his infant stream. Tocmi, What poet would not mourn to see TO WELL, V. a. - To pour any thing His brother write as well as he? Stoit. forth. 4. Not amiss; not unsuccessfully; nut To her people wealth they forth do well, erroneously. And health to every foreign nation. Spenser. Solyman commended them for a plot so well by them laid, more than he did the victory of WELL. adj. [Well seems to be sometimes others gnt by good fortune, not grounded upon an adjective, though it is not always any good reason. Knoles, easy to deterinine its relations. ] The soldier that philosopher coell-blam’d, 1. Not sick; being in health. Who long and loudly in the schools decim'd. Derbam. Lady, I ain not well, else I should ansver From a tuli Howing stomach. Shakspeare. 'Tis almost impossible to translate verbally and In poison there is physiek; and this news, u'ell. Dryden. That would, had I been well, have made me sick, 5. Not insuficiently ; not detectively. Being sick, hath in some measure nude me well. The plain of Jordan was well wacered every Sbakspeared Geresis. While thou art well, thou mavest do much We are will able to overcome it. Nimmers. good; but when thou art sick, chou canst not The merchant adventurers, being a strong iell what thou shalt be able to do: it is not very company, and well underset with rien men, held much nor very good. Few men mend with our bravely. Bacon. sickness, as there are but few who by travel and 6, T, a degree that gives pleasure. a wandering lite become devout. Turler. I like all, in some places, fair columns upon Men under irregular appetites never think frames of carpenters work. Bacon. themselves will, so long as they fancy they might 7. With praise ; favourably. be better, then from better they must rise to All the world speaks well of you. Popes best. L'Estrange. 8. Well is sometimes, like the French biin, "Tis easy for any, when well, to give advice to them that are not. a term of concession. Wakes The knot might well be cut, but untied is 2. Happy. could not be Sidacy, Mark, we use 'To say the dead are well. Sbaksperte. 9. Conveniently, suitably. Know Holdings were so plentiful, and holders so In measure what the mind can well contain, scarce, as well was the landlord, who could get Milion. one to be his tenant. Carew. Charity is made the constant companion and 10. To a sufficient degree : a kind of sligit perfection of all virtues; and well it is for that sense. virtue where it most enters and longest stays. A private csution I know not well how to Sprat. sort, unless I should call it pditical, by no mea is 3. Convenient; advantageous, to build too near a grcat neighbour. "O!! This exactness is necessary, and it would be II. It is a word by which something is u li too if it extended itselt to common conver- admitted as the ground for a conclusion sation. Locke. Well, let's away, and say how much is done, I would have been well for Gunoa, if she Sbakspears |