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Weld or Wold. The dyer's-weed (reseda luteola), which yields a beautiful yellow dye. (Anglo-Saxon, geld or gold, our yellow, etc.) Well Begun is Half Done The beginning is half the whole. (Pythagoras.) Dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet. Horace. Facilius est incitare currentem, quam commovere languentem. (Cicero.)Well-beloved Charles VI. of France, le Bien-aimé. (1368, 1380-1422.) Well-founded Doctor AEgidius de Columna. (*-1316.) Well of English Undefiled So Geoffrey Chaucer is spoken of by Spenser in the Faërie Queene, iv. 2. (1328-1400.) Well of St. Keyne [Cornwall ]. The reputed virtue of this well is that whichever of a married pair first drinks its waters will be the paramount power of the house. Southey has a ballad on the subject. The gentleman left the bride at the church door, but the lady took a bottle of the water to church. |
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