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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



... 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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