Wellesley (ˈwɛlzlɪ) ![]() | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Arthur. See (1st Duke of) Wellington |
| 2. | his brother, Richard Colley, Marquis Wellesley. 1760--1842, British administrator. As governor general of Bengal (1797--1805) he consolidated British power in India |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |