A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done prettywell. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would dowell in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as theMount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacywell out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
1957 July, Randall Garrett, “The Best Policy”, inAstounding Science Fiction:
His overall color was similar to that of awell-boiled lobster.
1995 Feb, Luke Timothy Johnson, “The New Testament and the examined life: Thoughts on teaching”, inThe Christian Century, volume112, number 4, page108:
Indeed, some readers may feel that I am beating a horse now alreadywell dead. But in fact, that dead horse is still being driven daily through the pages of introductory textbooks.
2000, Colin Robinson, “Energy Economists and Economic Liberalism”, inEnergy Journal, volume21, number 2, page 1:
Energy markets demonstrated in the 1970s and 1980s that they werewell capable of adapting to a perceived scarcity.
2006, Spider Robinson,Callahan's legacy:
neither of us was paying attention to any damn imaginary scoring judges -- we were bothwell content, if a little fatigued.
1999, Drummond Pearson, “What Ash are doing right now...”, inalt.music.ash (Usenet):
That guy rocks! I think he's called Matthew Lillard or sommat but he iswell cool in Scream.
2002, jibaili, “FIFA 2003 How is it?”, inmicrosoft.public.xbox (Usenet):
Hey Dude / FIFA 2003 iswell wicked, I've got FIFA 2002 on PS2, David Beckham on Xbox and Football Manager on Xbox too, out of all pf[sic] them FIFA 2003 is easliy[sic] the best.
1667,John Milton, “Book VII”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author, by a Lucky Accident, Finds Means to LeaveBlefuscu; and, after Some Difficulties, Returns Safe to his Native Country.”, inTravels into Several Remote Nations of the World.[…][Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London:[…]Benj[amin] Motte,[…],→OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput),page147:
My SonJohnny, named ſo after his Uncle, was at the Grammar School, and a towardly Child. My daughterBetty (who is nowwell married, and has Children) was then at her Needle-Work.
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I've always been a healthy, fit woman, but right now I really don't feel verywell.
1934 July 14, “Sinkiang Chief Predicts Early Suppression of Rebels”, inThe China Weekly Review[2], volume69, number 7,→OCLC,page257:
Mr. Peng said that the world-famous scientist, Sven Hedin, was kidnapped by troops under General Ma in south Sinkiang, but was released later, and is believed to be safe andwell at Akosu.
Paulina. As she liu'd peerelesse, So her dead likenesse I doe well beleeue Excells what euer yet you look'd vpon, Or hand of Man hath done: therefore I keepe it Louely, apart. But here it is: prepare To see the Life as liuely mock'd, as euer Still Sleepe mock'd Death: behold, and say 'tiswell.
2014, Tom Mitchell, Assoc. Prof., “Psych 308/309 GUIDE FOR WRITING PROJECT REPORT”, inAcademic website[3], archived fromthe original on4 December 2014:
In this respect it would bewell for you to depart from the standard format and to indicate why you did what you did.
2004 September 1, Sleiman Y. Naddaf, MD with B. David Collier, MD, Abdelhamid H. Elgazzar, MD, and Magdy M. Khalil, MSc, “Technical Errors in Planar Bone Scanning”, in Kathy S. Thomas, editor,Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology[4], volume32, number 3, Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, archived fromthe original on23 April 2021, page149:
When executing bone scan protocols, it iswell for one to be aware of how key deviations from optimal technique can degrade image quality.
1897, National Association of Railway Surgeons,Railway surgeon, page191:
On leaving the operating table it iswell to put the patient in a bed previously warmed and supplied with hot cans.
1984, Peter A. Smith, Fred M. Barritt,Bermewjan Vurds, Island Press:
This wahoo tastesval.
2013 September 5, James Burton, “Burton's Banter: Our rich dialogue — as moreish as a cold burr...”, inThe Bermuda Sun[5], archived fromthe original on12 December 2022:
Drunk, like, a gallon of orange mindral. Tastedwel.
“Well,” I says, “I cal’late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.
1936,Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, inA Further Range:
If gold pleased the conqueror,well, That gold should be the one thing The conqueror henceforth should lack.
“Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.
It was a bit...well, too loud.
An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and in a lowering intonation).
Well,well,well, what do we have here?
An exclamation of indignance.
Well! There was no need to say that in front of my mother!
(Ireland)Used as a greeting, short for "Are you well?"
Well, lads? How's things?
Used as a question to demand an answer from someone.
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Awell of serious thought and pure, / Too deep for earthly light.
1989 February 5, Craig G. Harris, “Your Life's All In Your Dreams And Your Dreams Are All In Your Life”, inGay Community News, volume16, number29, page 9:
News of the deaths of James Baldwin and Richard Bruce Nugent in 1987 seemed to signal the death of an era — an era which produced works of monumental significance for Black lesbians and gay men; works such asGiovanni's Room,Just Above My Head, and "Smoke, Lillies, and Jade." As a fledgling Black gay writer, this was thewell from which I drew succor.
(nautical) A vertical, cylindricaltrunk in aship, reaching down to the lowest part of thehull, through which thebilge pumps operate.
(nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
2005, James Paul Gee,Why Video Games are Good for Your Soul:
Tetris, the most widely played computer game of all time, is a problem-solving puzzle game.[…] The player attempts to lock the falling shape smoothly together with the shapes in thewell.
(biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
You can reposition the order of documents in the window by clicking and dragging the tabs, or you can drag a tab out of thewell and view a document in its own floating window.
2016, Jeff Martin,Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook, page15:
You should now have three documents open with their tabs showing in the tabwell (this refers to the row of tabs for each open document in the editor), as shown in the following screenshot:[…]
well (third-person singular simple presentwells,present participlewelling,simple past and past participlewelled)
(intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
1697,Virgil, “The Tenth Book of theÆneis”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.[…], London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC:
↑1.01.11.2Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867
^Kathleen A. Browne (1927), “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, inJournal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)[1], volume17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page130
