well sinking (welsing"king)

The operation of sinking or digging wells; the act of boring for water. well-smack (wel's mak), n. A fishing-smack furnished with a well; a smack. [Canada and New Eng.] well-spherometer (wel's fe-rom"e-ter), n. form of spherometer for accurately measuring the radius of curvature of a lens. well-spoken (wel'spō"kn), a. 1. Spoken well or with propriety: as, a well - spoken recitation. - 2. See well spoken, under speak. A well-spring (wel's pring), п. [ spring: see welll and spring.] 1. A watersolete or archaic.] source; a fountainhead; a living spring. [Ob A litill brooke that com rennynge of two welle sprynges of a mountayne. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 338. Hence-2. Figuratively, a perennial source of anything; a fountainhead of supply or of emanation. Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that IMG:content-2230.png:[blocks in formation] well-staircase (wel's tar kās), n. A staircase forming or built around a well or well-hole. See well1, n., 5 ( а ).