wheadlet

An obsolete spelling of wheedle. wheall (hwel), n. [ He must drie his face very well, for feare of wheales and wrinkles. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 194. All wheales and itching pimples which are readie to breake forth. Holland , tr. of Pliny, xxii. 25. Specifically-2. An elevation of the skin, of varying size, usually elongated in form, caused by a stroke, as of a rod or whip, or constituting an eruption, as that of urticaria. See urticaria . wheall (hwel), v. [ ME.whelen : see wheall , n.] I. trans. To produce a wheal upon. S. Judd , Margaret, His eyes were bloodshot, his cheeks whealed and puffed. II. in trans. To suppurate; form a sore or pustule. Now gins the leprous cores of ulcered sins Wheale to a heade. Marston , Ant. and Mel., II., v. 1. wheal2 (hwel), n. [Also huel , wheel , whel , wheyl; hwel ,' hwel , a work, ork, a mine; mine; cf. W. chwyl , a turn, course, while, chu while, chwylo , turn, revolve, run a course, bustle, chwel , a course, turn.] [Cornwall, Eng.] turn.] A mine.