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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
weal1 /wiːl/ (also chiefly Medicine wheal)

▶noun a red, swollen mark left on flesh by a blow or pressure.

■ Medicine a temporarily raised and reddened area of skin, usually accompanied by itching.

▶verb mark with a weal.

– origin C19: var. of wale, influenced by obs. wheal ‘suppurate’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
weal2 /wiːl/

▶noun formal that which is best for someone or something: guardians of the public weal.

– origin OE wela ‘wealth, well-being’, of W. Gmc origin; rel. to well1.

'weal' also found in these Oxford entries:

laldy - wale - wealth - welt - wheal

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