WEALS

Noun

weals

plural of weal

Anagrams

• Swale, Wales, alews, lawes, swale, sweal, wales

Source: Wiktionary


WEAL

Weal, n.

Definition: The mark of a stripe. See Wale.

Weal, v. t.

Definition: To mark with stripes. See Wale.

Weal, n. Etym: [OE. wele, AS. wela, weola, wealth, from wel well. See Well, adv., and cf. Wealth.]

1. A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare. God . . . grant you wele and prosperity. Chaucer. As we love the weal of our souls and bodies. Bacon. To him linked in weal or woe. Milton. Never was there a time when it more concerned the public weal that the character of the Parliament should stand high. Macaulay.

2. The body politic; the state; common wealth. [Obs.] The special watchmen of our English weal. Shak.

Weal, v. t.

Definition: To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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DOOMED

(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott


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