 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
weal
noun: a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a
whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions [syn: {wale},
{welt}, {wheal}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weal \Weal\, noun
The mark of a stripe. See {Wale}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weal \Weal\, verb (used with an object)
To mark with stripes. See {Wale}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weal \Weal\, noun [OE. wele, AS. wela, weola, wealth, from wel
well. See {Well}, adverb, and cf. {Wealth}.]
1. A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or
thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare.
God . . . grant you wele and prosperity. --Chaucer.
As we love the weal of our souls and bodies.
--Bacon.
To him linked in weal or woe. --Milton.
Never was there a time when it more concerned the
public weal that the character of the Parliament
should stand high. --Macaulay.
2. The body politic; the state; common wealth. [Obs.]
The special watchmen of our English weal. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weal \Weal\, verb (used with an object)
To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous. [Obs.]
--Beau. & Fl.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "weal":
Easy Street, affluence, bed of roses, birthmark, blackhead, bleb,
blemish, blister, bulla, check, cicatrix, clover, comedo, comfort,
crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity,
disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, ease, easy circumstances,
fault, felicity, flaw, fleshpots, freckle, gracious life,
gracious living, happiness, hemangioma, hickey, keloid, kink,
lap of luxury, lentigo, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luxury,
milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark,
port-wine mark, port-wine stain, prosperity, prosperousness,
pustule, rift, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, security,
split, strawberry mark, sty, success, the affluent life,
the good life, thriving condition, track, twist, upward mobility,
velvet, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, wealth, welfare,
well-being, welt, wen, whelk, whelp, whitehead
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