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ity; 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.

Balanced or considered with reference to public weal. [Obs.] Shak.

n open country; -- often used in place names. Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, And heard the spirits of the waste and weald Moan as she fled. Tennyson. Weald clay (Geol.), the uppermost member of the Wealden strata. See Wealden.

The Wealden group or strata.

Of or pertaining to a weald, esp. to the weald in the county of Kent, England. [Obs.] Fuller.

Weleful. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A statesman; a politician. [R.] Shak.

Weal; welfare; prosperity; good. [Obs.] "Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth." 1 Cor. x. 24.

Full of wealth; wealthy; prosperous. [R.] Sir T. More. -- Wealth"ful*ly, adv. [R.]

In a wealthy manner; richly. I come to wive it wealthily in Padua. Shak.

The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence.

Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich. A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe. Shak. Thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. Ps. lxvi. 12.

Commonwealth. Such a prince, So kind a father of the commonweal. Shak.

government and system of laws. The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Milton.

To singe; to scorch; to swale; as, to sweal a pig by singeing off the hair.

Ivory black or animal charcoal. Weale.

ets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.

The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.

p; to include. "Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all." Cowper. The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion. W. Irving.

g, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal. A wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community. J. S. Mill.