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▪ I. † ˈwealy, a.1 Obs.
Forms: 1 weliᵹ, -eᵹ, wæliᵹ, weoliᵹ, 2–4 weli, 3 weoli, -eȝ, 4–5 wely, 6 Sc. velie.
[OE. weliᵹ = OS. welag (MLG. and MDu. welich, LG. and Du. welig luxuriant, rank, wanton), OHG. welac:—WGer. *welaᵹo-, f. *wela- weal n.1: see -y1.]
1. Wealthy, prosperous, happy.
Beowulf 2607 Ᵹemunde ða ða are, þe he him ær forᵹeaf, wicstede weliᵹne Wæᵹmundinga. c893ælfred Oros. iv. v. (1883) 166 Sum weliᵹ mon..se wæs haten Hanna. 11..Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 540/6 Diues, weli. c1205Lay. 427 Þa weoleȝen & þa weaðlen. Ibid. 13904 Þe þridde hæhte Woden Þæt is an weoli godd. a1300Cursor M. 7879 Bot oft þe weliest o win Riue-liest þai fal in sin. Ibid. 9958 Þan was þar never suilk a hald, Ne nan welier in werld to wald. c1380in Polit. Poems (Rolls) I. 267 Suche annuels has made thes frers, so wely and so gay, That ther may no possessioners mayntene thair array.
2. In good condition, healthy.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1244 Þo þat byden wer so biten with þe bale hunger, Þat on wyf hade ben worþe þe welgest fourre. c1440Pallad. on Husb. iii. 266 The clawes drie & scabbid, old, vnsely, Kitte al away, & kepe up that is wely.
3. Luxurious, self-indulgent.
1545Joye Expos. Dan. iv. 50 b, The peple of Israell as oft as thei wexed wealy and fatte as saith the song of Moses. Ibid. v. 71 Let siche sewer wealy rulers beware of a soden fall. c1590J. Stewart Poems (S.T.S.) II. 216 Sum velie var, Sum vickit, And Sum vaine.
Hence † ˈwealiness, luxuriousness. Obs.
1545Joye Expos. Dan. xi. 181 Therfore of pryde and wealynes [he] gaue himselfe vp vnto his owne lustis. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxx. 7. 109 Hereuppon groweth wealynesse of the flesh [hinc carnis lascivia], that they licentiously folow theyr owne lusts.
▪ II. † ˈwealy2, ˈweely, a. Obs.
Also 7 wealie, weally.
[Of obscure origin; common in P. Holland.]
Of land: Unproductive, marshy, poor.
1601Holland Pliny xvii. viii. I. 506 If the ground be cold, moist, and weely. 1610― Camden's Brit. 203 This river [Ex] hath his head and springeth first in a weely and barren ground named Exmore. Ibid. 364 Flockes of sheepe long necked and square of bulke and bone, by reason (as it is commonly thought) of the weally and hilly situation of their pasturage. 1610W. Folkingham Feudigr. i. x. 33 Sandy Marle serues (for want of other) chiefely in cold moist and weely grounds. |