Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Welled"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Well \Well\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Welled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Welling}.] [OE. wellen, AS. wyllan, wellan, fr. weallan;
akin to OFries. walla, OS. & OHG. wallan, G. wallen, Icel.
vella, G. welle, wave, OHG. wella, walm, AS. wylm; cf. L.
volvere to roll, Gr. ? to inwrap, ? to roll. Cf. {Voluble},
{Wallop} to boil, {Wallow}, {Weld} of metal.]
To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
``[Blood] welled from out the wound.'' --Dryden. ``[Yon
spring] wells softly forth.'' --Bryant.
From his two springs in Gojam's sunny realm, Pure
welling out, he through the lucid lake Of fair Dambea
rolls his infant streams. --Thomson.
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