WEAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weal mean? 

• WEAL (noun)
  The noun WEAL has 1 sense:

1. a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions

  Familiarity information: WEAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

wale; weal; welt; wheal

Hypernyms ("weal" is a kind of...):

harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

 Context examples 

“Young gentlemen is generally tired of beef and mutton: have a weal cutlet!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Let me find some soothing simples and lay them on the weal to draw the sting.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But they thought the want of moral virtues was so far from being supplied by superior endowments of the mind, that employments could never be put into such dangerous hands as those of persons so qualified; and, at least, that the mistakes committed by ignorance, in a virtuous disposition, would never be of such fatal consequence to the public weal, as the practices of a man, whose inclinations led him to be corrupt, and who had great abilities to manage, to multiply, and defend his corruptions.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Allow me to offer my inquiries with reference to the physical welfare of Mrs. Copperfield in esse, and Mrs. Traddles in posse,—presuming, that is to say, that my friend Mr. Traddles is not yet united to the object of his affections, for weal and for woe.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)