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wale

weɪl
WordNet
Portrait of Jacobus Frans Eduard, Prince of Wales as a child. Below the portrait a crown with ostrich feathers and a banderole with the text "ick dien". Below the image an English-language dedication to Mary II Stuart, Queen of England and Scotland, printed from a separate plate.
Portrait of Jacobus Frans Eduard, Prince of Wales as a child. Below the portrait a crown with ostrich feathers and a banderole with the text "ick dien". Below the image an English-language dedication to Mary II Stuart, Queen of England and Scotland, printed from a separate plate.
  1. (n) wale
    thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship
  2. (n) wale
    a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions
Illustrations
Portrait of Frederick Henry Stuart, Prince of Wales. In the edge lettering of the frame the name, position and date of birth of the person portrayed in Latin. In the margin a six-line poem in Latin.
Portrait of Frederick Henry Stuart, Prince of Wales. In the edge lettering of the frame the name, position and date of birth of the person portrayed in Latin. In the margin a six-line poem in Latin.
The flight of Queen Mary of Modena with the Prince of Wales and the Catholic King James II in December 1688 and January 1689 in 11 performances. At the top a portrait in profile to the left of Willem III with the slogan: No Monarchy No Popery. In the center a large performance in which James II is received by the French king Louis XIV in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Below the scenes, short explanations and additional notes with pen in brown.
The flight of Queen Mary of Modena with the Prince of Wales and the Catholic King James II in December 1688 and January 1689 in 11 performances. At the top a portrait in profile to the left of Willem III with the slogan: No Monarchy No Popery. In the center a large performance in which James II is received by the French king Louis XIV in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Below the scenes, short explanations and additional notes with pen in brown.
Cartoon on the failed plan with Jacobus Frans Eduard, Prince of Wales, the neglected child, 1689. Left on a bed lies the neglected child, the miller's child. In the front left, the true mother of this child is seated with Father Peters (Edward Petre), in the center Queen Maria of Modena. Next to her King James II as a cardinal. This also includes Louis XIV and the Dauphin. On the left, the Quakers are preparing to leave for Pennsylvania. On the right the Pope. On the arches in the background the text: It is getting night here. Below the presentation 2 verses of 2 columns each with an explanation of the numbers 1-19 in Dutch and French.
Cartoon on the failed plan with Jacobus Frans Eduard, Prince of Wales, the neglected child, 1689. Left on a bed lies the neglected child, the miller's child. In the front left, the true mother of this child is seated with Father Peters (Edward Petre), in the center Queen Maria of Modena. Next to her King James II as a cardinal. This also includes Louis XIV and the Dauphin. On the left, the Quakers are preparing to leave for Pennsylvania. On the right the Pope. On the arches in the background the text: It is getting night here. Below the presentation 2 verses of 2 columns each with an explanation of the numbers 1-19 in Dutch and French.
The child Jacobus Frans Eduard, Prince of Wales, sitting on a velvet cushion. In the 2-verse 3-line caption, this child is listed as one of Britain's three problems.
The child Jacobus Frans Eduard, Prince of Wales, sitting on a velvet cushion. In the 2-verse 3-line caption, this child is listed as one of Britain's three problems.
Charles Stuart, Prince of Wales. The future King Charles II of England.
Charles Stuart, Prince of Wales. The future King Charles II of England.
Charles Stuart, Prince of Wales, as a child. The future King Charles II of England. He is standing next to a dog.
Charles Stuart, Prince of Wales, as a child. The future King Charles II of England. He is standing next to a dog.
Portrait of Jacobus Frans Eduard, Prince of Wales, aka James III the Pretendent.
Portrait of Jacobus Frans Eduard, Prince of Wales, aka James III the Pretendent.
Portrait of Henry Frederick (1594-1612), Prince of Wales. Eldest son of Jacobus I. Buste, in profile to the right, in front of a shell-shaped niche. Part of the collection of portrait miniatures.
Portrait of Henry Frederick (1594-1612), Prince of Wales. Eldest son of Jacobus I. Buste, in profile to the right, in front of a shell-shaped niche. Part of the collection of portrait miniatures.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch' is the actual name of a village in northern Wales
  1. Wale
    A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
  2. Wale
    (Carp) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
  3. Wale
    (Naut) A wale knot, or wall knot.
  4. Wale
    To choose; to select; specifically Mining, to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
  5. Wale
    To mark with wales, or stripes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Owing to a faulty cornerstone, the church of St. John in Barmouth, Wales, crashed in ruins a minute after it was finished. It was rebuilt, and the new edifice has endured to the present day.
  1. (n) wale
    In wood ship-building, one of the strakes of heavy outside planking above the turn of the bilge. In wooden war-ships, the main wales extended from the lower gun-port sills to the bottom plank, the middle wales between the main-deck ports and the gun-deck ports, and the channel wales, sometimes called strings, between the spar- and main-deck ports. See bend, 3 .
  2. wale
    Specifically, to sort or pick (coal) by hand at the mine or breaker.
  3. (n) wale
    A rod.
  4. (n) wale
    A ridge or plank along the edge of a ship. Compare gunwale.
  5. (n) wale
    A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position; a wale-piece.
  6. (n) wale
    A wale-knot.
  7. (n) wale
    A ridge in cloth, formed by a thread or a group of threads; hence, a stripe or strain implying quality.
  8. (n) wale
    A streak or stripe produced on the skin by the stroke of a rod or whip.
  9. (n) wale
    A tumor, or large swelling.
  10. wale
    To mark with wales or stripes.
  11. wale
    To weave or make the web of, as a gabion, with more than two rods at a time.
  12. (n) wale
    A picking or choosing; the choice; the pick or pink of anything; the best.
  13. wale
    To seek; choose; select; court; woo.
  14. wale
    Choice; good; excellent.
  15. (n) wale
    An obsolete form of weal.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
In Wales, there are more sheep than people. (In 1996 the population for Wales was 2,921,000 with approximately 5,000,000 sheep)
  1. (n) Wale
    wāl a raised streak left by a stripe: a ridge on the surface of cloth: a plank all along the outer timbers on a ship's side
  2. (v.t) Wale
    to mark with wales
  3. (n) Wale
    wāl (Scot.) the choice or pick of anything
  4. (v.t) Wale
    to choose
Quotations
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
Robert Bolt
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary AS. walu, a mark of stripes or blows, probably originally, a rod; akin to Icel. völr, Goth. walus, a rod, staff. √146. Cf. Goal Weal a wale

Usage in the news

Six hundred people lined up outside a dental office in Carmarthen, Wales. nytimes.com

Filmed in the UK by BBC Wales. variety.com

Serious general histories of Wales are rare enough. nybooks.com

A Whitesnake fan is suing the Newport (Wales) council after claiming to have missed the beginning of one of the band's gigs. 1057thehawk.com

Wales squad for autumn Tests. bbc.com

Live on BBC One Wales &S4C. bbc.com

He was arrsted in Wales Sept 17. jsonline.com

Last week, Newsnight aired a report on allegations related to sex abuse in Wales in the 1970s and 1980s. thestar.com

On Nov 2, "Newsnight" aired false claims by an abuse victim involving an ex-Conservative Party politician at child- care homes in Wales. businessweek.com

He was born Dec 14, 1943, in Lake Wales, Fla. To Henderson and Ella May and lived most of his life in Pine Island. cape-coral-daily-breeze.com

BULLETIN BOARD Golf outing supports North Wales man with ALS . phillyburbs.com

Wale predicts DC sports results. espn.go.com

The life and legacy of the best-selling novelist of The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales is explored. thinktv.org

Carter's earlier novel, Josey Wales, had been turned into a successful film by actor Clint Eastwood. bhm.org

The Indians defeated the Wildcats 35-13. Who will win, Immokalee or Lake Wales. naplesnews.com

Usage in scientific papers

This work is supported by a PPARC rolling grant to the University of Wales Aberystwyth.
Angular momentum transport and proton-alpha differential streaming in the solar wind

The case d = 1 is slightly different: Flatto, Odlyzko and Wales [11, Theorem 6.1] proved that for the discrete time random walk starting from the uniform distribution WL/L2 converges to a certain law.
The small world effect on the coalescing time of random walks

Moreover, we used the classification obtained by Wales in and to prove that seven-dimensional exceptional quotient singularities do not exist (see ).
Sporadic simple groups and quotient singularities

In fact, there is an extensive literature containing important results related more or less strictly to our sub ject, both before and after Dempwolff ’s work (e.g. results due to Hering, Wagner, Suprunenko, Huffman, Wales, Tiep, Guralnick, Saxl and others).
On generators and representations of the sporadic simple groups

This meeting was organised under the auspices of STAR, the Solar Terrestrial and Astrophysical Research working group of SCAR, with John Storey (also of the University of New South Wales) becoming the vice-chair with responsibilities for astrophysics within STAR.
The History of Astrophysics in Antarctica

Usage in literature

The English crown was not to fall to his lot, but Edward transferred the title of Prince of Wales to his own son. "A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)" by Leopold von Ranke

Gloucester is on the western confines of England, near the southeastern borders of Wales. "Richard III" by Jacob Abbott

Tell him from me I hope when he is a Don he will write the History of Wales. "War Letters of a Public-School Boy" by Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones

Let us now journey westward from the Dee into Wales, coming first into Flintshire. "England, Picturesque and Descriptive" by Joel Cook

Harries (John), bishop of Wales, 439. "Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 5, January-June, 1852" by Various

The Prince of Wales and other officers were there. "How I Filmed the War" by Lieut. Geoffrey H. Malins

Wales trembled slightly when he replied to the question he had been awaiting. "Carmen Ariza" by Charles Francis Stocking

His grandfather came to America from Wales about the year 1700, accompanied by his family. "Glimpses of the Past" by W. O. Raymond

And, if you are there, you may as well mention the reason for my going to Wales, or, you see, it will look like a positive slight. "Under False Pretences" by Adeline Sergeant

These others are some of the Hilton House, Miss Wales. "Betty Wales Freshman" by Edith K. Dunton

Usage in poetry
"At our lang wars, in fair Scotland,
I fain ha'e wish'd to be,
If fifteen hundred waled wight men
You'll grant to ride with me."
"Auld Maitland" by Andrew Lang Author object (36)
And you may learn of Dyfed's reign,
And dream Nemedian tales
Of Kings who sailed in ships from Spain
And lent their swords to Wales.
"The Welsh Sea" by James Elroy Flecker Author object (326)
"In truth this Wales, Sire, is a gem,
The fairest in your crown:
The stream and field rich harvest yield,
And fair and dale and down.
"The Bard Of Wales" by Janos Arany
Since our long-suffering, gracious God
So long o'er London held his rod,
I fear that guilty Wales must feel
The edge of his avenging steel.
"Another On The Same Occasion" by Rees Prichard
This England has beheld of late,
When London felt the frowns of fate;
And this in thee, Wales, shall be seen,
If thou dost not forsake thy sin.
"A Warning To The Welsh, To Repent, Wrote At The Time A Great Plague Rag'd In London" by Rees Prichard
A day, to sit — a day, in chat to spend —
A day, when fighting 'mongst us most prevails —
A day, to do the errands of the fiend —
Such is the sabbath in most parts of Wales!
"Concerning The Sabbath" by Rees Prichard