1. A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare. God . . . grant you wele and prosperity. Chaucer. As we love the weal of our souls and bodies. Bacon. To him linked in weal or woe. Milton. Never was there a time when it more concerned the public weal that the character of the Parliament should stand high. Macaulay.
2. The body politic; the state; common wealth. [Obs.] The special watchmen of our English weal. Shak.
WEAL
Weal, v. t.
Defn: To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
WEAL-BALANCED
Weal"-bal`anced, a.
Defn: Balanced or considered with reference to public weal. [Obs.]
Shak.
WEALD
Weald, n. Etym: [AS. See Wold.]
Defn: A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; — often used in place names. Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, And heard the spirits of the waste and weald Moan as she fled. Tennyson. Weald clay (Geol.), the uppermost member of the Wealden strata. See Wealden.
WEALDEN
Weald"en, a. Etym: [AS. weald, wald, a forest, a wood. So called
because this formation occurs in the wealds, or woods, of Kent and
Sussex. See Weald.] (Geol.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Cretaceous formation in England and on the Continent, which overlies the Oölitic series.