Æsop begged his companions not to overcharge him; they found him a weakling, and bade him please himself. L'Estrange. This dog would have fought for his master in any other case; but the love of mutton was his weakside. Id. Every violence offered to the body weakens and impairs it, and renders it less durable. Ray. The weak, by thinking themselves strong, are induced to venture and proclaim war against that which ruins them; and the strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are thereby rendered unactive and useless. South. Many find a pleasure in contradicting the common reports of fame, and in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted character. Let us not weaken still the weaker side Addison. ld. Pope. Ireland ought to be considered not only in its own interest, but likewise in relation to England, upon whose weal in the main that of this kingdom depends. Temple. How shall the muse from such a monarch steal An hour, and not defraud the public weal? Pope. WEAL, n. s. Sax. palan. The mark of a stripe. Like warts or weals it hangs upon her skin. Donne. WEALTH, n. s. Sax. paleo, rich. From WEALTH'ILY, adv.weal. Prosperity; external WEALTH'Y, adj. happiness; riches: the adverb and adjective corresponding. In all time of our tribulation, in all time of our wealth, in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment, good Lord deliver us. Common Prayer. In desart hast thine habitance, I come to wive it wealthily in Padua, I should forge Faerie Queene. Shakspeare. Id. Corbet. Dryden. Each day new wealth without their care provides, My speculations, when sold single, like cherries upon the stick, are delights for the rich and wealthy. Aldis. Not Neptune's self from all his floods receives A wealthier tribute than to thine he gives. Pope. WEAN, v. a. Sax. penan. To put from the breast; to ablactate: hence withdraw from strong desire or habit. certainly arrive to, if he but wean himself from these worldly impediments here that clog his soul's flight. Digby. There the coarse cake, and homely husks of beans, From pamp'ring riot the young stomach weans. Dryd. A fortnight before you wean calves from milk, lei water be mixed with it. Mortimer The troubles of age were intended by the Author of our being to wean us gradually from our fondness of life, the nearer we approach to the end of it. Swift. WEAN'EL, n.s. Į From wean. An animal S newly weaned. WEAN'LING. Though when as Lowder was far away, With that to the wood would he speed haste. Spenser. WEAPONSALVE, n. s.. Sax. peapon. Instrument of offence: armed with such an instrument: destitute of such an in strument; unarmed: weaponsalve is a salve which, applied to the weapon, was supposed to cure the wound it made. In what sort, so ill weaponed, could you achieve this enterprise? Sidney. The giant Down let fall his arm, and soft withdrew Take this weapon Ran on embatted armies, clad in iron, Spenser. Shakap. Daniel. Milton. That the sympathetic powder and the weapon-salve constantly perform what is promised, I leave others to believe. worn. Boyle. With his full force he whirled it first around; Imperial Juno turned the course before, And fixed the wandering weapon in the door. Dryden. WEAR, v. a., v. n., & Pret. wore; part. WEARER, n. s. [n. s. Sax. pepan. To WEAR'ING. waste with use, time, or instruments; to impair by gradual diminution : hence to use; carry appendant to the body; exhibit to be wasted; pass away by degrees: the act of wearing or thing worn: a wearer is, that which wastes or diminishes; one who uses or carries any thing appended to him: wearing is used by Shakspeare for clothes. any Id. O wicked world! one that is well nigh worn to pieces with age, to show himself a young gallant. ld. I have behaved as a child that is weaned of his mother. Psalms. Here the place whose pleasant sights From other shades have weaned my wandering mind; Tell me what wants me here. Spenser. I the rather wean me from despair, For love of Edward's offspring in my womb. Shaksp. Seriously reflect on the happy state he shall most What masks, what dances, To wear away this long age of three hours! Protogenes could lay his colors so artificially, that one being worn off, a fresh should succeed, to the number of five. Peacham. They have had all advantages to the making of them wise unto salvation, yet suffer their manhood to wear out and obliterate all those rudiments of their youth. Decay of Piety. The difficulty will every day grow less and wear off, and obedience become easy and familiar. Rogers. On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore. Pope. Take away this measure from our dress and habits, and all is turned into such paint and glitter, and ridiculous ornaments, as are a real shame to the wearer. WEAR', n. s. Law. VERRA. WEA'SAND, n. s. Sax. paren, pærand. The windpipe; the passage through which the breath is drawn and emitted; the larynx. Marry Diggon, what should him affray, WEAR'ISH, adj. S boggy; watery. Walton. A garment over rich and wide for many of their Carew. wearish and ill-disposed bodies. WEAR, OF WEER, is a great dam in a river, fitted for the taking of fish, or for conveying the stream to a mill. New wears are not to be made, or others altered, to the nuisance of the public, under a certain penalty. waeren. WEA'RY, adj. & v. a. Saxon penig; Belg. WEARINESS, n. s. Subdued by WEA'RISOME, adj. fatigue; tired; worn; WEA'RISOMELY, adv. worn out to fatigue; WEA'RISOMENESS, n. s. tire; harass: wearisome is tedious; tiresome; causing weariness: the other derivatives correspond. Let us not be weary in well doing. Gal. vi. 9. Spenser. Shakspeare. Cut his wezand with thy knife. WEATHER, n. s. & v. a.) Dryden. Sax. peden; Isl. wether. State of the air, respecting either cold or heat, wet or dryness; change of that state; tempest; storm to weather is expose to the air and its changes; to pass with difficulty; gain; endure: weatherbeaten, harmed or worn by the weather: weathercock, weathergage, and weatherglass, instruments for ascertaining the state or changes of the wind or weather: weatherspy and weatherwiser, prognosticators of the weather, male, female, or The people labour in the very fire, and weary them- neuter; weatherdriven, forced by storms or weather. selves for very vanity. Hab. ii. 13. Fair Phoebus 'gan decline, in haste, labour to know. Hooker. A wit, quick without lightness, sharp without brittleness, desirous of good things without newfangledness, diligent in painful things without wearisomeness. Ascham. He perched on some branch thereby, Thrice from the banks of Wye, And sandy-bottomed Severn, have I sent And sooner may a gulling weatherspy, Id. Id. Donne. I hope, when you know the worst, you will at once leap into the river, and swim through handsomely, and not weatherbeaten with the divers blasts of irresolution, Suckling. Cowley. WEAVING. The various processes for weaving with the common loom have been fully discussed in those departments of our work dedicated to the manufacture of CLOTH and COTTON; and it will now only be necessary to furnish our readers with a description of the improved power loom as manu Could they weather and stand the shock of an eternal duration, and yet be at any time subject to a disso-factured by Mr. Roberts of Manchester. lution? To vere and tack, and steer a cause Against the weathergage of laws. Hale. Hudibras. He break my promise and absolve my vow! As in some weatherglass my love I hold, I will be constant yet. He weathered fell Charybdis; but ere long Id. Id. Garth. WEATHER. See METEOROLOGY. The women wove hangings for the grove. The painter plays the spider, and hath woven Upon these taxations, The clothiers all, not able to maintain Like nets be weaved and intertwined, Shakspeare. Id. Carew. The patentee's improvements are divided into several heads, the first of which consists in an improved manner of constructing and applying the tappets which are employed for raising and depressing the different shafts or heddles in those looms where more than two shafts or heddles are used. This part of the improvement is applicable both to hand looms and those which are worked by power. Plate I of WEAVING Contains several views of a power loom, having six shafts or heddles, adapted to weave twilled cloths or fustians, and such other fabrics as have the threads crossed in weaving, in that peculiar manner called twill. Fig. 1 is a front view of the loom (the cloth-roller and breast-beam being removed, in order to exhibit the parts behind). Fig. 2 represents the left hand end of the loom; fig. 3 the right hand end; and fig. 4 is a horizontal view, that is, looking down upon the top. The framing is of cast iron, bolted or screwed together, so as to render the whole firm; a is the yarn roller, upon which the warps are wound, and this is made to turn with considerable friction, by means of cords passing over pulleys, with weights suspended in order to keep the warp tight. The warp is drawn from this roller over a small roller b, and thence is conducted to the lease-rods c, and through the loops of the several heddles d. These heddles are made to move up and down (in the manner hereafter to be described) for the purpose of separating the warp into two sheds, between which the shuttle is to pass, for the purpose of bringing the weft threads between those of the warp, and thereby weaving the fabric; e is the lay in which the reed is placed, consisting of a series of fine wires; between these wires the warp passes, and by it the threads are separated. This lay is supported by two arms f,f, and vibrates upon a shaft with pivots below. The lay is moved backward to enable the shuttle to pass along its race between the divided parts of the warp, and it is brought forward to beat up the weft after the shuttle has passed; g is the place of the breast beam, over which the cloth or other fabric passes when it is woven, and descends from the breast-beam to the roller h, where it is wound up. On the end of the axle of this roller, h, there is a toothed wheel i (seen in fig. 3) which takes into a pinion upon the axle of the ratchet wheel k. A click or pall at the end of the cross-lever falls into this ratchet, and the lower end of the crosslever being connected to the leg of the lay, moves with it, turning upon a pivot in the centre of the cross, and, every time that the lay goes backward, the click pulls the ratchet wheel one tooth, thereby causing the pinion to move the roller i round with a very slow motion, by which the cloth is progressively drawn on to the roller as it accumulates in the loom. The machinery is put in motion by means of the band m, seen in fig. 2, which proceeds from the steam-engine, or any other first mover, and passes over the rigger n, which is fixed to a small flywheel upon the end of the main shaft of the loom |