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Weld   /wɛld/   Listen
Weld

noun
1.
European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America.  Synonyms: dyer's mignonette, dyer's rocket, Reseda luteola.
2.
United States abolitionist (1803-1895).  Synonym: Theodore Dwight Weld.
3.
A metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together.
verb
(past & past part. welded; pres. part. welding)
1.
Join together by heating.
2.
Unite closely or intimately.



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"Weld" Quotes from Famous Books



... known here? Is it possible? I do not know what can possibly be found to weld the old and new worlds together. I suppose it will be steam. What is the use of exploiting gold mines, of being such a man as Don Inigo Juan Varago Cardaval de los Amoagos, las Frescas y Peral —and not be heard ...
— Vautrin • Honore de Balzac

... alum, will give a crimson colour; with iron, purple; with tin, scarlet; and with chrome or copper, purple. Logwood, also, if mordanted with alum, gives a mauve colour; if mordanted with chrome, it gives a blue. Fustic, weld, and most of the yellow dyes, give a greeny yellow with alum, but an old gold colour with chrome; and fawns of various shades with ...
— Vegetable Dyes - Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer • Ethel M. Mairet

... The manacles had gone; her hands were free. She would make this her supreme occupation. She had learnt her lesson now she felt, she knew something of the mingling of control and affectionate regard that was needed to weld the warring uneasy units of her new community. And she could do it, now as she was and unencumbered, she knew this power was in her. When everything seemed lost to her, suddenly it was ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... interest to us that we should know whether any of his line is left on the earth. Of sentimental interest, I say, for rarely, if ever, does genius repeat itself, nor do different environing circumstances weld and mould genius in the same way. Its nature is very easy to kill, or dwarf, or distort, but it is our excuse for being concerned with those ...
— Shakespeare's Family • Mrs. C. C. Stopes

... men and women. Marriage and love have nothing in common. We marry to found a family, and we form families in order to constitute society. Society cannot dispense with marriage. If society is a chain, each family is a link in that chain. In order to weld those links, we always seek for metals of the same kind. When we marry, we must bring together suitable conditions; we must combine fortunes, unite similar races, and aim at the common interest, which is riches and children. We marry ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. • Guy de Maupassant


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