weik

See week3. weilt, n. Same as weell. Weil's disease. An infectious disease, having a course of about ten days, characterized by jaundice, muscular pains, enlargement of the weird liver and spleen, and fever. Also called acute infectious jaundice. weily, adv. A dialectal form of welly. Well, I'm weily brosten, as they sayn in Lancashire. Swift, Polite Conversation, ii. ( Davies.) We in gar ten's theorem. See theorem. Weinmannia (win-man'i-ä), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1763), named after J. W. Weinmann, a German apothecary.] A genus of polypetalous plants, of the order Saxifragaceæ and tribe Cu nonieæ. It is characterized by flowers with imbricated sepals, four or five petals, eight or ten long stamens insert ed on the base of a free disk, and small oblong, commonly pilose seeds. There are about 60 species, principally of tropical or south temperate regions, occurring in America, Australia, New Zealand, and the Mascarene and Pacific islands. They are trees or shrubs with opposite branchlets, opposite coriaceous, often glandular leaves, odd-pinnate with a winged rachis. The small white flowers are disposed in simple terminal or axillary erect racemes, followed by small coriaceous two-celled capsules splitting into two sharp boat-like valves. Some species afford a soft light wood used in carpentry aud cabinet-work. A Peruvian species yields an astringent bark utilized in tanning. W. tinct or i a is employed in the Isle of Bourbon in dyeing red. W. pinnata, a tree with downy branches, native from the West Indies and Mexico to Guiana, is known in Jamaica as bastard braziletto. W. Benthami, an evergreen tree of New South Wales, reaches 100 feet high; 4 others are Australian, and 2 occur in New Zealand, of which W. sylvicola, a small tree with blackish bark, is now culti vated in England, and W. racemosa is known as the tawai bark tree.