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- English Word Wellfare Definition See Welfare.
- English Word Wellhead Definition A source, spring, or fountain.
- English Word Wellhole Definition The open space in a floor, to accommodate a staircase.
- English Word Wellhole Definition The open space left beyond the ends of the steps of a staircase.
- English Word Wellhole Definition A cavity which receives a counterbalancing weight in certain mechanical contrivances, and is adapted also for other purposes.
- English Word Welling Definition of Well
- English Word Wellingtonia Definition A name given to the "big trees" (Sequoia gigantea) of California, and still used in England. See Sequoia.
- English Word Wellingtons Definition A kind of long boots for men.
- English Word Wellspring Definition A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply.
- English Word Wellwisher Definition One who wishes another well; one who is benevolently or friendlily inclined.
- English Word Wels Definition The sheatfish; -- called also waller.
- English Word Welsh Definition Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants.
- English Word Welsh Definition The language of Wales, or of the Welsh people.
- English Word Welsh Definition The natives or inhabitants of Wales.
- English Word Welsher Definition One who cheats at a horse race; one who bets, without a chance of being able to pay; one who receives money to back certain horses and absconds with it.
- English Word Welshman Definition A native or inhabitant of Wales; one of the Welsh.
- English Word Welshman Definition A squirrel fish.
- English Word Welshman Definition The large-mouthed black bass. See Black bass.
- English Word Welshmen Definition of Welshman
- English Word Welsome Definition Prosperous; well.
- English Word Welt Definition That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it
- English Word Welt Definition A small cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a cord, and sewed down.
- English Word Welt Definition A hem, border, or fringe.
- English Word Welt Definition In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole.
- English Word Welt Definition In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
- English Word Welt Definition In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
- English Word Welt Definition In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
- English Word Welt Definition A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
- English Word Welt Definition To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve.
- English Word Welt Definition To wilt.