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Weld   /wɛld/   Listen
noun
Weld  n.  
1.
(Bot.) An herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America; dyer's broom; dyer's rocket; dyer's weed; wild woad. It is used by dyers to give a yellow color. (Written also woald, wold, and would)
2.
Coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.


Weld  n.  The state of being welded; the joint made by welding.
Butt weld. See under Butt.
Scarf weld, a joint made by overlapping, and welding together, the scarfed ends of two pieces.


verb
Weld  v. t.  To wield. (Obs.)


Weld  v. t.  (past & past part. welded; pres. part. welding)  
1.
To press or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion. Note: Very few of the metals, besides iron and platinum. are capable of being welded. Horn and tortoise shell possess this useful property.
2.
Fig.: To unite closely or intimately. "Two women faster welded in one love."





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"Weld" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the shoulder-blade, and have since given it, together with the pieces of leather, to His Excellency Governor Weld. ...
— A Source Book Of Australian History • Compiled by Gwendolen H. Swinburne
... though from a different cause. It was too hard. It was 'pure crude fact,' secreted from the fluid being of the men and women whose experience it had formed. In its existing state it would have broken up under the artistic attempt to weld and round it. He supplied an alloy, the alloy of fancy, or—as he also calls it—of one fact more: this fact being the echo of those past existences awakened within his own. He breathed into the dead record the breath of his own life; and ...
— Life of Robert Browning • William Sharp
... line together. After dinner you trot out your plan of campaign and I'll trot out mine; then we'll tear them apart, select the best pieces of each and weld them into ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... revolutionary thinkers like Bebel it has failed to adapt itself to the facts of modern German life. The vague phrases of its republican programme, survivals from a past epoch of European thought, have attracted to it a large mass of inarticulate discontent which it has never been able to weld into a party of practical reformers. In the municipal sphere and in the field of Trade Unionism, under the education of responsibility, German Socialism can show great achievements; but in national policy it has been as helpless as the rest ...
— The War and Democracy • R.W. Seton-Watson, J. Dover Wilson, Alfred E. Zimmern,
... too universal a success. This gifted and ambitious man was suffered to take an active part in the government of one of the greatest of the nations. By his bold and manly grasp of American interests, he did much to weld the different States more closely into one. He negotiated, on the part of his country, some of the most important treaties which promote the peace and the amity of nations, for example, what is called the Ashburton treaty ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 • Various


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