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bicular, flatfish on one side, convex on the other.— Essential 
Character. Contorted: berry inferior, two-celled, cells 
one-seeded. Style elevated. Stigma club-shaped. Calyx 
five-cleft. 
1. Webera corymbosa.—Unarmed, leaves oblong, acute; 
corymb terminating. This is a shrub of the human stature. 
Stems and branches round, ash-coloured, knobbed; wood 
white, yellow towards the middle.—Native of Malabar and 
Ceylon. 
2. Webera cymosa.—Unarmed, leaves ovate, acuminate; 
cymes many flowered, axillary peduncled. This is a tree 
with round pubescent branches.—Native of the East Indies. 
3. Webera tetrandra.—Spiny, leaves roundish; few- 
flowered, axillary, peduncled; flowersfour-stamened. This 
is one of the most common scraggy thorny bushes on the 
coast of Coromandel, every soil and situation suiting it. 
Flowers in the hot season, and makes excellent fences. 
The ripe fruit is eaten by the natives; the leaves are eaten 
generally in curries: on both accounts this shrub has the 
additional name of Kura, which means esculent. The 
Telingas call it Ballusoo-Kura. 
WE'BBED, adj. Joined by a film.—Such as are whole¬ 
footed, or whose toes are webbed together, their legs are 
generally short, the most convenient size for swimming. 
Derhant. 
WEBBERTON, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Dunchideock, Devonshire. 
WE'BFOOTED, adj. Palmipede; having films between 
the toes.— Webfooted fowls do not live constantly upon the 
land, nor fear to enter the water. Hay. 
WEBHAMET, a river of the United States, in Maine, 
which runs into the Atlantic in Wells. 
WE'BSTER, s. [pebpcpe, Sax. a woman weaver.] A 
weaver. Still a northern term. The old word is also Web¬ 
ber, Pr. Parv. “ a maker of cloth.”—After local names, the 
most in number have been derived from occupations; as 
Taylor, Webster, Wheeler. Camden. 
WECHMAR, a village of Germany, in the duchy of Saxe- 
Gotha; 4 miles south-east of Gotha. Population 1200. 
WECHNE, an inhabited mountain of Abyssinia, on 
which the royal family were formerly confined. 
WECHSELBURG, a small town of Germany, in Saxony; 
3 miles south of Rochlitz. 
' To WED, v. a. [pebbian, Saxon ; witkan, M. Goth, 
conjungere, marem nempe et fceminam; wetten, Germ. 
dyweddio, Cambr. conjungere. Affine Su. Goth, wad, 
sponsio, a pledge. Serenius. The Sax. peb is the same, 
and Junius refers to it our wed; which Dr. Jamieson sup¬ 
ports by observing, “ that it was customary to espouse by 
means of a wed or pledge.” Thus wed for pledge, in old 
Engl. “ And thus his truth he laith to wedde." Gower, 
Conf. Am. B. i.] To marry; to take for husband or wife. 
If one by one you wedded all the world, 
Or, from the all that are, took something good 
To make a perfect woman; she you kill’d 
Would be unparallel’d. Shalcspcarc. 
To join in marriage. 
In Syracusa was I born, and wed 
Unto a womau happy but for me. Shakspeare. 
To unite for ever. 
Affliction is enamour’d of thy parts, 
And thou art wedded to calamity. Shakspeare. 
To take for ever.—They positively and concernedly wed¬ 
ded his cause. Clarendon. —To unite by love or fondness. 
—Men are wedded to their lusts, and resolved upon a 
wicked course; and so it becomes their interest to wish there 
were no God. Tillotson. 
To WED, v. n. To contract matrimony. 
When I shall wed. 
That lord whose hand shall take my plight, shall carry 
Half my love with him, half my care and duty. Shakspeare. 
WED, BAAL, or Nagga, a large village in Sennaar, on 
the east bank of the Nile. 
WED EL CASAAB, a small river of Algiers, which falls 
into the Mediterranean, 5 miles south of Cape Falcon. 
WED EL KIBBEER, a river of Algiers, the ancient 
Ampsaga, which falls into the Mediterranean. Lat. 36. 57. 
N. long. 6. 28. E. 
WED EL MAILAH, or the Salt River, a river of Al¬ 
giers, which falls into the Mediterranean; 10 miles south- 
south-east of Cape Figalo. 
WED EL SHAIER, a small river of Africa, in the 
southern part of the territory of Tunis, which rises in the 
Sahara, and after a course of about thirty miles, loses itself in 
the great plain of the Shott. 
WEDDAN, a town of Central Africa, in one of the routes 
from Fezzan to Bornou, 20 days journey from Bornou, and 
26 from Fezzan. 
WE'DDED, adj. Belonging to matrimony.—Solomon, 
among his gravest proverbs, countenances a kind of ravish¬ 
ment and erring fondness in the entertainment of wedded 
leisures. Milton. 
WEDDICAR, a township of England, in Cumberland ; 
2 J miles from Whitehaven. 
WE'D DING, s. [pebbung, Saxon.] Marriage; nuptials; 
the nuptial ceremony. 
Come, away! 
For you shall hence upon your wedding- day. Shakspeare. 
WEDDINGTON, a parish of England, in Warwickshire; 
1| mile north of Nuneaton. 
WEDEL, a town of Denmark, in Holstein, on the Elbe, 
with 1000 inhabitants; 13 miles north-west of Hamburg. 
WEDEL (George Wolffgang), an eminent physician, 
was born in 1645, at Golzan, in Lusatia, and studied physic 
and took his doctor’s degree at Jena, in 1667, where, after a 
temporary exercise of his profession at Gotha, he became 
medical professor, in which station he continued with re¬ 
putation for almost fifty years. He combined with his me¬ 
dical skill a considerable acquaintance with mathematics and 
philology, as well as with the oriental and classical languages. 
He was an associate to the Academy Naturae Curiosorum, and 
to the Royal Society of Berlin, physician to several German 
sovereigns, a count palatine, and an imperial counsellor. 
Notwithstanding these high offices and numerous engage¬ 
ments, he was attentive to the poor, and assiduous in his 
literary labours. His pathology was derived from the 
systems of Helmont and Sylvius; in his practice he depend¬ 
ed much on absorbents, and the volatile salts of vegetables. 
Wedel was addicted to astrology ; but he is chiefly celebrated 
for his pharmaceutical knowledge, and his elegance of pre¬ 
scription, so that many of his compositions have been 
adopted in dispensatories. Of his works, besides his aca¬ 
demical dissertations, the principal are the following; viz. 
“ Opiologia;” “ Pharmacia in Artis formam redacta;” 
“ De Medicamentorum Facultatibus cognoscendis et appli- 
candis;” “ De Morbis Infantum;” and “ Exercitationes 
Medico-Philologicse.” Haller. Eloy. 
WEDGE, s. \yegge, Danish ; wegge, Dutch.] A body, 
which having a sharp edge, continually growing thicker, is 
used to cleave timber; one of the mechanical powers. 
A barbarous troop of clownish fone. 
The honour of these noble bows down threw; 
Under the wedge 1 heard the trunk to groan. Spenser. 
A mass of metal. 
As sparkles from the anvil used to fly, 
When heavy hammers on the wedge are swaid. Spenser. 
Any thing in the form of a wedge. 
In warlike musters they appear, 
In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. 
Milton. 
To WEDGE, v. a. To cleave with a wedge. 
My heart 
As wedged with a sigh would rive in twain, 
Lest Hector, or my father, should perceive me. Shakspeare. 
To drive as a wedge is driven. 
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