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WE1SSKIRCHEN, or Hranice, a town of Moravia; 
20 miles east of Olmutz. It has 3300 inhabitants. 
WEISSMAGN, a town of the Bavarian states, on the 
White Main; 14 miles north-north-east of Bamberg. Popu¬ 
lation 1000. 
WEISSWASSER, a town of Austrian Silesia; 4 miles 
south-west of Patschkau. Population 1100.—2. A town of 
Bohemia; 6 miles north-west of Jung-Bunslau. Popula¬ 
tion 1100. 
WEISWELL, a neat village of Germany; 17 miles north¬ 
west of Freyburg. Population 1200. 
WEISSWEILLER, a village of Prussian Westphalia, 
near Eschweiler. Population 800. 
WEISTRITZ, a river of Prussian Silesia, which rises in 
the Riesengebirge, passes by Schweidnitz, and falls into the 
Polsnitz. 
WEITBRUCH, a village of France, in Alsace, with 
800 inhabitants. 
WEITRA, or Weitrach, a town of Lower Austria; 
75 miles west-north-west of Vienna. Population 1500. 
WEITRAFELD, a town of Germany, in Lower Austria; 
49 miles north-north-west of Vienna. Population 800. 
WE1TZ, a town of the Austrian states in Styria; 11 
miles north-east of Gratz. Population 800. 
To WEIVE, ®. a. [now written wave, and sometimes 
waive.] To decline; to withdraw; to forsake. 
Baptisme they receiven, 
And all their false goddes weiven. Gower. 
WELANG, a small island in the Eastern seas. Lat. 
1. 25. S. long. 130. 30. E. 
WE'LAWAY, inter], [from the Saxon exclamation 
palapa, woe on woe: from welaway is formed by corruption 
weladay.] Alas. 
Harrow now out, and wealaway, he cried, 
What dismal day hath sent this cursed light! Spenser. 
WELBECK, a hamlet of England, in the county of 
Nottingham, near Worksop. 
WELBORNE, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 6J miles 
north-north-west of Wymondham. 
WELBOURNE, a parish of England in Lincolnshire; 
9| miles north-west of Sleaford. 
WELBURN, a township of England, North Riding of 
Yorkshire; 5 miles south-west-by-west of New Malton.—2. 
Another township in the above Riding; 4| miles east of 
Helmesley. 
WELBURY, a township of England, in Yorkshire; 61- 
miles north-north-east of Northallerton. 
WELBY, a township of England, in the county of Lei¬ 
cester, 2| miles north-west-by-west of Melton Mowbray.—2. 
A parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 4| miles east-by¬ 
north of Grantham.—3. A post village of the United States, 
in Prince George county, Maryland. 
WELCH BIGNOR, a village of England, in Monmouth¬ 
shire, near Monmouth. 
WELCH HAMPTON, a parish of England, in Salop; 
3 miles from Ellesmere. 
WELCH MOUNTAIN, a mountain of the United States, 
in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. 
WELCH NEWTON, a parish of England, in Hereford¬ 
shire, near Monmouth. 
WELCH WITTLE, a parish of England, in Lancashire; 
6 miles from Wigan. 
WE'LCOME, adj. [bien venu, French; pilcume, 
Saxon; welkom, Dutch.] Received with gladness; admitted 
willingly to any place or enjoyment; grateful; pleasing. 
I serve you, madam: 
Your graces are right welcome. Shakspeare. 
To bid Welcome. To receive with professions of kind¬ 
ness.—Some stood in a row in so civil a fashion, as if to wel¬ 
come us; and divers put their arms a little abroad, which is 
their gesture when they bid any welcome. Bacon. 
WE'LCOME, interj. A form of salutation used to a 
new comer, elliptically used for you are welcome. 
Welcome, he said, 
O long expected to my dear embrace. Dry deni 
WE'LCOME, s. Salutation of a new comer.— Welcome 
ever smiles, and farewel goes out sighing. Shakspeare .— 
Kind reception of a new comer. 
I look’d not for you yet, nor am provided 
For your fit welcome. Shakspeare. 
To WE'LCOME, v. a. To salute a new comer with 
kindness. 
I know no cause 
Why I should welcome such a guest as grief, ■ 
Save bidding farewel to so sweet a guest 
As my sweet Richard. Shakspeare. 
WE'LCOME to our house, s. \_lactusa marina, Lat.] 
An herb. Ainsworth. 
WELCOME BAY, a bay on the west end of the island 
of Java. Lat. 6. 35. S. long. 105. 30. E. 
WE'LCOMENESS, s. Gratefulness.—Our joys, after 
some centuries of years, may seem to have grown elder, by 
having been enjoyed so many ages; yet will they really still 
continue new, not only upon the scores of their welcome¬ 
ness, but by their perpetually equal, because infinite, dis¬ 
tance from a period. Boyle. 
WE'LCOMER, s. The saluter or receiver of a new 
comer.—Farewel, thou woeful welcomer of glory. Shak¬ 
speare. 
WELD, a township of the United States, in Oxford 
county, Maine. 
WELD, or Would, s. \luteola, Latin.] Yellow weed, 
or dyer’s weed.—Many colouring materials,—as red-wood, 
weld, woad. Obs. on Dyeing. 
To WELD, for To Wield. —Those that weld the awful 
crown. Spenser. 
To WELD, v. a. \wella, Swed. the same. Serenius.] 
To beat one mass into another, so as to incorporate them.— 
Sparkling or welding heat is used when you double up your 
iron to make it thick enough, and so weld or work in the 
doubling into one another. Moron. 
WE'LDER, s. [A term perhaps merely Irish; though it 
may be derived from To wield, to turn or manage: whence 
wielder, welder.] Manager; actual occupier.—Such imme¬ 
diate tenants have others under them, and so a third and 
fourth in subordination, till it comes to the welder, as they 
call him, who sits at a rack-rent, and lives miserably. Swift. 
WELDON, Great, a market town and parish of Eng¬ 
land, in the county of Northampton, near the river Willy. 
It has a handsome market-house, and a sessions-house over 
it. Market on Wednesday, and four annual fairs; 28 miles 
north-east of Northampton. 
WELDON, Little, a hamlet of England, in North¬ 
amptonshire, adjoining the village of Great Weldon. Po¬ 
pulation 442. 
WELEDIA, a village of Upper Egypt, on the Nile ; 5 
miles north of Siut. 
WE'LFARE, s. Happiness; success; prosperity.—If 
friends to a government forbear their assistance, they put it 
in the power of a few desperate men to ruin the welfare of 
those who are superior to them in strength and interest. Ad¬ 
dison. 
WELFORD, a parish of England, in Berkshire^ 5| miles 
north-west of Speenhamland. Population 906.—2. A pa¬ 
rish of England, in the county of Gloucester; 9 miles north 
of Chipping Campden. Population 477.—3. A hamlet of 
England, in the parish of Kempford, Gloucester. 
WELFORD, or Wellesford, a parish of England, in 
Northamptonshire; 15 miles north-north-west of Northamp¬ 
ton. Population 1024. 
WELHAM, or Wellandham, a parish of England, in 
Leicestershire; 4 miles north-east-by-north of Market Har- 
borough. 
WELHAM, a hamlet of England, in Yorkshire; 1| mile 
south of New Malton. 
WELITSGHNA, a populous town of Hungary; 32 miles 
north of Neusohl. 
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