weak sighted (weksited)

Having weak sight. A. Tucker. weak-spirited (wēk's pir i-ted), a. Having a weak or timorous spirit; pusillanimous. Scott. weaky (wē'ki), a. [ happine ; well IMG:content-2168.png:[blocks in formation] Pope , Iliad, xiv. 119. 21. The state: properly in the phrases common weal, public weal, general weal, meaning primarily the common or public welfare, but used (the first now as a compound word) to designate the state (in which weal used alone is an abbreviation of commonweal ). A publike weale is a body lyuyng, compacte or made of sondry a states and degrees of men, whiche is disposed by the ordre of equite, and gouerned by the rule and moder a Sir T. Elyot, The Govern our, i. 1. tion of reason. The charters that you bear I' the body of the weal . Shak . , Cor., ii. 3. 189. The public, general, or common weal, the interest, wellbeing, or prosperity of the community, state, or society. weallt (wel), v. t. [ Fletcher (and another ), False One, iv. 3. wealth 2. [l. c.] Any open country. [Rare, and mostly in poetry.] But she to Almesbury Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald . Tennyson, Guinevere. Wealden (wēl'dn), a. and n. [Irreg. Cretaceous. The deposits of the Wealden, which have a total thickne of 1,800 feet, precisely resemble those of a modern delta, and the organic remains include land plants, fresh-water shells, and a few estuarine or marine forms, as also dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, and pterodactyls. The Wealden is separated into two divisions: the Weald Clay, at the top, about 1,000 feet thick, and the Hastings Sand group beneath, which is subdivided, in descending order, as follows: Tun bridge Wells Sand, 120 to 180 feet thick; Wadhurst Clay, 120 to 180 feet; and Ashdown Sand, 400 to 500 feet. The Wealden is overlain conformably by the Lower Greensand. wealdisht (wēl'dish), a . [ Weald , the Weald, + -ish1.] Of or belonging to a weald, especially [ cap .] to the Weald of Kent, Surrey, and Su ex. The Wealdish men. Fuller , Worthies, Kent, II. 111. wealfult (wēl'fül), a. [ welful , weoleful ; weal + -ful .] Succe ful; prosperous; happy; joyous; felicitous. For thow ne wost what is the ende of thinges, forthy domesthow that felonos and wykked men ben myhty and weleful . Chaucer , Boëthius, i. prose 6. To tell the jerkes with joy that joy do bring Is both a we ale full and a wofull thing. Davies, Holy Roode, p. 13. (Davies.) wealfulne t (wēl'fül-nes), n. [ ne e ; wealful +-ne .] Prosperity; succe ; happine . In his opinioun of felicite, that I clepe welefulne e . Chaucer , Boëthius, i. prose 3. weal-publict (wēl'publik), n. The state; the commonwealth; the body politic; the public weal: properly two words, like body politic . If you can find in your heart so to appoint and dispose yourself that you may apply your wit and diligence to the weal2 (wēl), n. and v. Same as walel . weal3t, n. Same as weel2 . weal4 (wēl), v. i . [Origin obscure.] To be in profit of the weal - public . woe or want. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] weal-balanced, a. An original misprint, in the following pa age, of well - balanced , cor- rected by some editors, but retained by some, and absurdly explained as "balanced with re- gard to the common weal or good." By cold gradation and well - balanced form We shall proceed with Angelo..