Lexicon: weeping – well

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weeping, verbal adj. [see weep, v.]

weigh (-ed, -s, -eth), v. [OE wegan, corresponds to OFris wega, weia, to move, weigh.] (webplay: anchor, balance, bear, bosom, consider, heart, heavier, lighter, mind, notice, ponder, pounds, price, speaketh, wool, worthy).

  1. Look; seem; visually appear; [fig.] frown; pull down.
  2. Be considered; be deliberated; be turned over.
  3. Ponder; consider carefully; pause before speaking; delay before expressing an opinion.
  4. Oppress; feel heavy; seem hard to bear; be a burden.
  5. Examine; experience; study; comprehend; understand; be ready to experience.

weight (-s), n. [OE wiht, OFris wicht.] (webplay: grief, hundred, ponderous, pound, power, quantity).

welcome, adj. [see welcome, n.]

Best; better off; received gladly; more agreeable; even more acceptable; [irony] good riddance; [word play on “well”] healthy.

welcome, n. [OE < wil will, desire, pleasure + cuma comer, guest.]

  1. Recognition; acknowledgment; identification.
  2. Greeting; salutation; warm reception; happy homecoming; invitation to join a company.

welcome (-s), v. [OE wilcumian < wilcuma.]

Include; embrace; receive; take in; greet favorably; find acceptable.

weld, v. [Alteration of WELL < OE wiellan, causative form of weallan, to boil.]

well, adj. [OE wel(l); see will, v.] (webplay: better, gain, good, man, rest, strong, while, whole, world).

  1. Healthy; good.
  2. Desirable; satisfactory; sufficient; adequate; appropriate; good enough.

well, adv. [see well, adj.] (webplay: adequately, advance, done, enough, every where, far, father, fit, fully, gain, good, justly, largest, less, long, Lot, life, liked, man, much, right, said, sin, satisfaction, skillfully, stone, strain, suitably, swell, tight, wave, ways, water, while).

  1. Thoroughly; fully; perfectly; very much.
  2. Skillfully; artfully.
  3. Better; best; pleasing; fortunate; advantageous; wise.
  4. Phrase. “as well”; “as well as”: also; in addition to; not less than; to the same degree.

well, interj. [see well, adv.]

Exclamation expressing surprise or astonishment; used to introduce a remark or cover a pause.