'Weal' definitions:
Definition of 'weal'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Weal'
From: GCIDE
- Weal \Weal\, n. [OE. wele, AS. wela, weola, wealth, from wel well. See Well, adv., and cf. Wealth.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare. [1913 Webster]
- God . . . grant you wele and prosperity. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- As we love the weal of our souls and bodies. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- To him linked in weal or woe. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Never was there a time when it more concerned the public weal that the character of the Parliament should stand high. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The body politic; the state; common wealth. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The special watchmen of our English weal. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Weal'
From: GCIDE
- Weal \Weal\, v. t. To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'weal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affluence,
- bed of roses,
- birthmark,
- blackhead,
- bleb,
- blemish,
- blister,
- bulla,
- check,
- cicatrix,
- clover,
- comedo,
- comfort,
- crack,
- crater,
- craze,
- defacement,
- defect,
- deformation,
- deformity,
- disfiguration,
- disfigurement,
- distortion,
- ease,
- easy circumstances,
- Easy Street,
- fault,
- felicity,
- flaw,
- fleshpots,
- freckle,
- gracious life,
- gracious living,
- happiness,
- hemangioma,
- hickey,
- keloid,
- kink,
- lap of luxury,
- lentigo,
- life of ease,
- loaves and fishes,
- luxury,
- milium,
- mole,
- needle scar,
- nevus,
- pimple,
- pit,
- pock,
- pockmark,
- port-wine mark,
- port-wine stain,
- prosperity,
- prosperousness,
- pustule,
- rift,
- scab,
- scar,
- scratch,
- sebaceous cyst,
- security,
- split,
- strawberry mark,
- sty,
- success,
- the affluent life,
- the good life,
- thriving condition,
- track,
- twist,
- upward mobility,
- velvet,
- verruca,
- vesicle,
- wale,
- warp,
- wart,
- wealth,
- welfare,
- well-being,
- welt,
- wen,
- whelk,
- whelp,
- whitehead