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WELLDO'NE, interject. A word of praise .— Well- 
done, thou good and faithful servant. St. Matth. 
WELLED SEEDY, the name given to a numerous tribe 
of Arabs, inhabiting the southern frontier of Tunis. 
WELLESBOROUGH, a hamlet of England, in Leices¬ 
tershire; 24 miles west-by-south of Market Bosworth. 
WELLESBOURNE HASTINGS, a village and parish 
of England, in Warwickshire; 54 miles north-west of Kine- 
ton. Population 538. 
WELLESLEY’S ISLANDS, a group of islands, so called 
by captain Flinders, at the head of the gulf of Carpentaria, 
on the north coast of New Holland. They consist of Morn- 
ington isle, Pisonia, Bentinck, Sweer’s island, and several 
other small and rocky islets. 
WE'LLFARE, s. Happiness; prosperity.—They will 
ask, what’s the final cause of a king ? And they will answer 
the people’s welfare. Certainly a true answer; and as cer¬ 
tainly an imperfect one. Holy day. 
WELLFA'VOURED, adj. Beautiful; pleasing to the 
eye.—His wife seems to be wellfavoured. I will use her as 
the key of the cuckoldy rogue’s coffer. Shakspeare. 
WELLFLEET, a post town and sea-port of the United 
States, in Barnstable county, Massachusetts, on a bay of the 
same name; 31 miles east-north-east of Barnstable, and 97 
south-east of Boston. Population 1402. 
WELLHAUGH, a township of England, in Northum¬ 
berland, parish of Si monburn. 
WE'LLHEAD, s. Source; fountain; spring. 
From dame Nature’s fruitful pap 
Their wellheads spring. Spenser. 
WELLING, a hamlet of England, in Kent, situated at the 
bottom of Shooter’s Hill. 
WELLINGBOROUGH, a market town of England, in 
the county of Northampton, is disposed along the slope of a 
hill, nearly a mile to the north of the river Nen. It was 
made a market town by a charter from King John, and such 
of the monks of Croyland as formerly possessed the manor. 
The greater part of the houses having been erected subse¬ 
quently to a dreadful fire, which happened in the year 1738, 
are neatly built, of a kind of sand-stone, from quarries in the 
neighbourhood; and from the situation of the ground, the 
streets are generally clean. The church is a large building, 
having at its west end a tower, surmounted by a handsome 
spire. The name of the town, which is Saxon, is supposed 
to have been derived from its ancient medicinal springs ; and 
one called Redwell was in great repute in the 17th century. 
It issues out at the foot of the hill, in an open field about 
half a mile west of the town. Its chief trade is in corn. 
Market on Wednesday. Fairs, Easter-Wednesday, Whit- 
Wednesday, and 18th October; 11 miles north-east-by-east 
of Northampton, and 67| north-north-west of London. 
Population 3999. 
WELLINGHAM, a parish of England, in Norfolk, 6| 
miles south-west-by-south of Fakenham. 
WELLINGLEY, a hamlet of England, in Yorkshire; 44 
miles north-west-by-west of Bawtry. 
WELLINGORE, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 
9| miles north-west-by-north of Sleaford. 
WELLINGTON, a parish of England, in Herefordshire; 
54 miles north of Hereford.-—2. A village of England, in 
Sussex; 2 miles from Lewes.—3. A large and populous 
market town of England, in the county of Somerset, near 
the eastern border of Devonshire. It consists of four streets, 
the principal of which is called the High-street, and is very 
wide and spacious, being about half a mile in length. It 
is a place of considerable trade; 20 miles west-south-west of 
Somerton, and -1494 west-south-west of London. Popula¬ 
tion 3874.—4. A market town of England, in Shropshire. 
The town of late years has been much improved, and con¬ 
tains many good houses. It has a good market on Thursday. 
Fairs 29th of March, 22d of June, 29th of September, and 
17th November; 11 miles east-by-south of Shrewsbury, and 
144 north-west of London. Population 8390.—5. A town- 
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ship of the United States, in Bristol county, Massachusetts, on 
the west side of Taunton river; 2 miles north of Dighton, 3 
south of Taunton, and 35 south of Boston. 
WELLMA'NNERED, adj. Polite; civil; complaisant. 
—By which well-7nannered and charitable expressions, I 
was certain of his sect before I knew him. Dryden. 
WELLME'ANER, s. One who means well. — Well- 
meaners think no harm. Dryden. 
WELLME'ANING, adj. Having a good intention.— 
Only may I be allowed to be a plain and well-meaning mo¬ 
nitor. Killingbeck. 
WELLME'T, interj. A term of salutation. 
Once more to-day wellmet, distemper’d lords; 
The king by me requests your presence straight. 
Shakspeare. 
WELLNA'TURED, adj. Goodnatured; kind. 
On their life no grievous burthen lies. 
Who are we/lnatur'd, temperate and wise: 
But an inhuman and ill-temper’d mind. 
Not any easy part in life can find. Denham. 
WELLNI'GH, adv. Almost. 
The same so sore annoyed has the knight, 
That wellnigh choaked with the deadly stink, 
His forces fail. Spenser. 
WELLNO, a small town of Prussian Poland, in the go¬ 
vernment of Posen. 
WELLOP, a river of England, in Northumberland, which 
runs into the Wear, near St. John’s Chapel. 
WELLOW, a parish of England, in Somersetshire; 4 
miles south-by-west of Bath. Population 728.—2. A parish 
of England, in Nottinghamshire; 14 mile south-east-by-east 
of Ollerton. 
WELLOW, East, a parish of England, in Southamp- 
tonshire, situated on the borders of Wiltshire; 34 miles west 
of Romsey. 
WELLOW, West, a hamlet in the foregoing parish, 
and adjoining thereto. 
WELLS (William Charles), F.R.S., I. and E., licentiate 
of the Royal College of Physicians, London, and one of the 
physicians to St. Thomas’s Hospital, was the son of pareuts 
who left Scotland and settled in Carolina, in 1753, born 
in Charlestown, South Carolina, in May, 1757. Few lives 
have been more diversified by incident and more sedu¬ 
lously devoted to literary and scientific pursuits, and there¬ 
fore more entitled to notice in our biographical sketches than 
the subject of this article. Before he had attained the age 
of seven years, he was sent to a considerable grammar-school 
at Dumfries, where he remained nearly two years and a 
half; and in the autumn of the year 1770 he removed to 
Edinburgh, and attended several of the lower classes of the 
university. At this early age he had the good fortune to be¬ 
come acquainted with Mr. David Hume and Sir William 
Miller, since known by the title of Lord Glenlee, whose 
friendship he afterwards cultivated and valued, and whose 
kind offices he gratefully acknowledged. In 1771, he re¬ 
turned to Charlestown, and was apprenticed, in the medical 
profession, to Dr. Alexander Garden, whose name is well 
known among naturalists; and during three years of the 
time he was with this gentleman, he pursued his studies with 
such diligence, that he acquired perhaps more knowledge 
than in any three subsequent years of his life. Soon after 
the commencement of the American war, in 1775, he came 
to London. The occasion of his removal was his refusal, 
from conscientious motives, to sign a paper denominated 
“ The Association,” which was drawn up in order to unite 
the people in a resistance to the claims of the British govern¬ 
ment, At the commencement of the winter of that year he 
went to Edinburgh, and entered upon his medical studies, 
with the view of taking a degree. To his former two friends, 
with whom he had kept up a regular correspondence, he 
had now the happiness of adding a third, no less intimate 
and constant than the others. Dr. Robertson Barclay. 
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