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  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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