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Prosperity; happiness; well-being; weal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Producing prosperity or happiness; blessed. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To welk, or wither. [Obs.]

Well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness. How to study for the people's welfare. Shak. In whose deep eyes Men read the welfare of the times to come. Emerson.

Faring well; prosperous; thriving. [Obs.] "A welfaring person." Chaucer.

To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane. [Obs.] When ruddy Phwelk in west. Spenser. The church, that before by insensible degrees welked and impaired, now with large steps went down hill decaying. Milton.

See Whelked.

The visible regions of the air; the vault of heaven; the sky. On the welkne shoon the sterres lyght. Chaucer. The fair welkin foully overcast. Spenser. When storms the welkin rend. Wordsworth.

n issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain. Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well. Milton.

The state or condition of being well; welfare; happiness; prosperity; as, virtue is essential to the well-being of men or of society.

Born of a noble or respect able family; not of mean birth.

Having good breeding; refined in manners; polite; cultivated. I am as well-bred as the earl's granddaughter. Thackera

Handsome; wellformed; beautiful; pleasing to the eye. Rachel was beautiful and well-favored. Gen. xxix. 17.

Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.

ight intentions or honorable purposes. Dutchmen who had sold themselves to France, as the wellintentioned party. Macaulay.

Fully known; generally known or acknowledged. A church well known with a well-known rite. M. Arnold.

bs. or Archaic] They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well-liking. Bk. of Com. Prayer (Ps. xcii.).

Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.

One whose intention is good. "Well-meaners think no harm." Dryden.

Having a good intention.