wellness (welnes)

[ A wegge of boone or yron putte bytwene The bark and tree welnygh III fingers depe. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 73. The labour of wel - nigh fifty pioners. Sandys , Travailes, p. 19. The dreary night has well nigh pa ed. Whittier , Pæan. well-ordered (wel'ôr'dėrd), a . Rightly or correctly ordered, regulated, or governed. There is a law in each well - order'd nation To curb those raging appetites. Shak., T. and C., ii. 2. 180. IMG:content-2228.png:[blocks in formation]