| Pronunciation: | | weeld
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| Matching Terms: | | weal, weal-balanced, wealden, wealdish, wealful, wealsman, wealth, wealthful, wealthily, wealthiness, wealthy, wealthy man, wealthy person
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| | Definition: | | [n] (Brit) an area of open or forested country |
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| | See Also: | | country, rural area |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Weald\, n. [AS. See {Wold}.]
A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open
country; -- often used in place names.
Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, And
heard the spirits of the waste and weald Moan as she
fled. --Tennyson.
{Weald clay} (Geol.), the uppermost member of the Wealden
strata. See {Wealden}.
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