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

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

To welk, or wither. [Obs.]

See Awless.

Having bowels; hollow. "The boweled cavern." Thomson.

One who takes out the bowels. [Written also emboweller.]

, or deals in, jewels, precious stones, and similar ornaments. [Written also jeweller.] Jeweler's gold. See under Gold.

Formed with a trowel; smoothed with a trowel; as, troweled stucco, that is, stucco laid on and ready for the reception of paint. [Written also trowelled.]

Having no vowel sounds or signs. [Written also unvowelled.] Skinner.

Furnished with vowels. [Written also vowelled.] Dryden.

d quartz, of a purple or bluish violet color, of different shades. It is much used as a jeweler's stone. Oriental amethyst, the violet-blue variety of transparent crystallized corundum or sapphire.

Inspiring no awe. [Obs.] "The awless throne." Shak. [Written also aweless]

To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle. "Bejeweled hands." Thackeray.

A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar. [Also written carkenet and carcant.] Shak.

The platforms, consisting of two or more planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge. Wilhelm. A singular, chess, is sometimes used. "Each chess consists of three planks." Farrow.

s penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.

t the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson.

The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.

The barbarous practice of emboweling. Hallam. The boar . . . makes his trough In your emboweled bosoms. Shak.

hed, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones. Ure.