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1  [weld]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to unite or fuse (as pieces of metal) by hammering, compressing, or the like, esp. after rendering soft or pasty by heat, and sometimes with the addition of fusible material like or unlike the pieces to be united.
2. to bring into complete union, harmony, agreement, etc.
–verb (used without object)
3. to undergo welding; be capable of being welded: a metal that welds easily.
–noun
4. a welded junction or joint.
5. the act of welding or the state of being welded.
Origin:
1590–1600; var. of well 2 in obs. sense “to boil, weld”

Related forms:
weld⋅a⋅ble, adjective
weld⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
welder, weldor, noun
weldless, adjective
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weld

2  [weld]
–noun
1. a mignonette, Reseda luteola, of southern Europe, yielding a yellow dye.
2. the dye.
Also, wold, woald, would.
Also called dyer's rocket.

Origin:
1325–75; ME welde; c. MLG walde, MD woude

Weld

  [weld]
–noun
Theodore Dwight, 1803–95, U.S. abolitionist leader.
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dyer's rocket  
n.  A European plant (Reseda luteola) having long spikes of small, yellowish-green flowers and yielding a yellow dye. Also called weld2.
weld 1   (wěld)   
v.   weld·ed, weld·ing, welds

v.   tr.

  1. To join (metals) by applying heat, sometimes with pressure and sometimes with an intermediate or filler metal having a high melting point.

  2. To bring into close association or union.

v.   intr.
To be capable of being welded.
n.  

  1. The union of two metal parts by welding.

  2. The joint formed by welding.


[Alteration (probably influenced by welled, past participle of well1) of well1, to weld (obsolete and dialectal).]
weld 2   (wěld)   
n.  

  1. See dyer's rocket.

  2. The yellow dye obtained from dyer's rocket.


[Middle English welde.]
Weld   (wěld)   
American abolitionist whose pamphlet American Slavery As It Is (1839) inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

weld  (v.)
1599, alteration of well (v.) "to boil, rise;" influenced by pp. form welled. The noun meaning "the joint formed by welding" is recorded from 1831.

weld  (n.)
plant (Resedo luteola) producing yellow dye, c.1374, from O.E. *wealde, perhaps a variant of O.E. wald "forest" (cf. M.L.G. walde, M.Du. woude). Sp. gualda, Fr. gaude are Gmc. loan-words.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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