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But the false archer, which that arrow shot 
So slyly that she did not feel the wound. 
Did smile full smoothly at her weet/esse wofull stound. 
Spenser. 
WEETON, a township of England, in Lancashire, near 
Kirkham. 
WEETON, atownship of England, West Riding of York ¬ 
shire. 
WEETWOOD, a hamlet of England, in Northumber¬ 
land ; 1 mile from Wooler. 
WEEVERHAM, a township of England, in Cheshire; 3 
miles west-by-north of Northwich. Population 1120. 
WE’EVIL, s. [pepel. Sax.; vevel, Dutch; curculio, Lat.] 
A grub.—A worm called weevil, bred under ground, 
feedeth upon roots ; as parsnips and carrots. Bacon. 
WE'EZEL, s. [See Weasel.] I suck melancholy out of 
a song, as a weazel sucks eggs. Shakspeare. 
WEFT. The old preterite and part. pass, of wave. Ob¬ 
solete. Spenser. 
WEFT, s. [guaive, Fr.; vofa, to wander, Icel.; vagus, 
Lat.] That of which the claim is generally waved; any thing 
wandering without an owner, and seized by the lord of the 
manor. 
His horse, it is the herald’s weft ; 
No, 'tis a mare. B. Jonson. 
It is used by Bacon for waft, a gentle blast.—The smell 
of violets exceedeth in sweetness that of spices, and the strong¬ 
est smells are best in a weft afar off. Bacon. 
WEFT, s. [pepta, Saxon; waeft, Su. Goth, from 
waefwa, to weave.] The woof of cloth. 
WE'FTAGE, s. [from weft.] Texture.—The whole 
muscles, as they lie upon the bones, might be truly tanned; 
whereby the weftage of the fibres might more easily be 
observed. Grew. 
WEGELEBEN, a town of Prussian Saxony ; 4 miles east 
of Halberstadt. Population 2000. 
WEGG’S ISLAND, a small island in Hudson’s bay. Lat. 
63. 20. N. long. 90. 25. W. 
WEGG’S LAKE, a lake of North America. Lat. 50. 
25. N. long. 92. 25. W. 
WEGGIS, a village of Switzerland, on the north side of 
the lake of Lucern. 
WEGROW, a town of Poland; 47 miles east-by-north of 
Warsaw. Population 1700. 
WEHEN, a small town of Germany, in Nassau; 14 miles 
north-north-west of Mentz. 
WEHL, a town of the Prussian states, on the Rhine, in 
the duchy of Cleves. Population 1300. 
WEHLAU, a town of East Prussia, at the junction of the 
Alle and the Pregel, with a bridge over the latter river; 28 
miles east-by-south of Konigsberg. Population 2700. 
WEHR, a river of Westphalia, which joins the Aa, at 
Hervorden. 
WEHRAU, a village of the Prussian states, in Upper 
Lusatia, on the Queiss. Population 2200. 
WEHRER, a town of Hanover; 20 miles east of Embden. 
Population 1900. 
WEICHSELBURG, a town of Austrian Illyria, in Car- 
niola; 9 miles east-south-east of Laybach. It contains 4000 
inhabitants. 
WEICHSELMUNDE, a small but strong fortress of West 
Prussia, near the mouth of the Vistula. 
WE1DA, a town of Germany, in the grand duchy of 
Saxe- Weimar, on the river Weida ; 34 miles east-south-east 
of Weimar. Population 1300. 
WEIDA, a small river of Saxony, in the Vogtland, which 
joins the Elster, near Veitsberg. 
WEIDA, a river of Prussian Silesia, which rises on the 
confines of Poland, and falls into the Oder; 9 miles below 
Breslau. 
WEIDEN, a town of Bavaria; 42 miles north of Ratis- 
bon. Population 2200. 
WEIDEN, a small town of Bavarian Franconia; 4 miles 
east of Weiss Mayn. 
WETDENAU, a town of Austrian Silesia; 11 miles south¬ 
west of Neisse. Population 1600. 
WEIDENBACH, a neat market town of Germany, in 
Bavarian Franconia; 5 miles south-south-east of Anspach. 
WEIDENBERG, a large market town of Germany. 
Bavarian Franconia; 7 miles east-south-east of Bayreuth. 
WEIGELIA [so named by Thunberg in honour of Christ. 
Ehrenfr. Weigel, author of Flora Pomerano-rugica], in Bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the class pentandria, order monogynia.— 
Generic Character. Calyx: perianth five-leaved; segments 
awl-shaped, erect, equal. Corolla one-petalled, funnel- 
formed ; tube villose internally, length of the calyx ; border 
bell-shaped, half-five-cleft; segments ovate, obtuse, erect, 
spreading, Stamina: filaments five, inserted into the tube, 
filiform, erect, almost the length of the corolla. Anthers 
erect, linear, bifid at the base, obtuse at the tip. Pistil : 
germ four-cornered, truncate, smooth, superior. Style from 
the base of the germ, filiform, a little longer than the corolla. 
Stigma peltate, flat. Pericarp. Seed naked.— Essential 
Character. Calyx five-leaved. Corolla funnel-form. Style 
from the base of the germ. Stigma peltate. Seed one. 
1. Weigel ia japonica.—Stem shrubby; branches opposite, 
smooth, round, ash-coloured. Leaves sessile, ovate-lanceo¬ 
late, an inch long, without any petioles. Flowers on the 
branches and at the axils; pedicels three, one-flowered, 
bracted. Corolla purple.—Native of Japan. 
2. Weigelia corceensis. Branches decussated, smooth, 
ash-coloured, form erect patulous. Leaves serrate, acumi¬ 
nate, a hand in length. Petioles embracing, about an inch 
long.—Native of Japan. 
WEIGELSDORF, a village of Prussian Silesia; 6 miles 
south of Reichenbach. 
WEIGELHAUSEN, a small town of Germany, in Bava¬ 
rian Franconia; 5 miles south-south-west of Schweinfurt. 
To WEIGH, v. a. [paegan, Saxon; weyhen, Dutch.] 
To examine by the balance. 
The Eternal hung forth his golden scales, 
Wherein all things created first he weigh'd. Milton. 
To be equivalent to in weight. 
They that must weigh out my afflictions, 
They that my trust must grow to, live not here; 
They are, as all my comforts are, far hence. Shahspeare. 
To pay, allot, or take by weight.—They weighed for my 
price thirty pieces of silver. Zech. —To raise; to take up 
the anchor. 
Here he left me, ling’ring here delay’d 
His parting kiss, and there his anchor weigh'd. Dry den. 
To examine; to balance in the mind ; to consider. 
I have in equal balance justly weigh'd 
What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we suffer. 
And find our griefs heavier than our offences. Shahspeare. 
To compare by the scales. 
Here in nice balance truth with gold she weighs. 
And solid pudding against empty praise. Pope. 
To regard; to consider as worthy of notice. 
I weigh not you- 
You do not weigh me; that is, you care not for me. 
Shahspeare. 
T WEIGH down. To overbalance.—Fear weighs down 
faith with shame. Daniel. 
To V/EIGH down.. To overburden; to oppress with 
weight; to depress. 
In thy blood will reign 
A melancholy damp of cold and dry, 
To weigh thy spirits down. Milton. 
To WEIGH, v. n. To have weight.—Exactly weighing 
and strangling a chicken in the scales, upon an immediate 
ponderation, we could discover no difference in weight; but 
suffering it to lie eight or ten hours until it grew perfectly 
cold, it weighed most sensibly lighter. Brown —To be 
considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual 
balance. 
