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1. wei-lā̆-wei n.

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(a) The utterance of wei-la-wei, lamentation; maken wei-la-wei (b) sorrow, grief; woe, distress, affliction; ?also, a curse [quot. a1450(?1419-20)]; (c) singen of wei-la-wei, to lament; also, with th……

2. wē̆lasai interj.

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A cry of sorrow or lamentation: Woe is me, alas. …

3. wē̆lasai n.

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In phrase: theire song is welasai, they express their lament. …

4. wei interj.

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Ah, oh, alas;—sometimes with that clause expressing the ground of the complaint. …

5. wei-lā̆ n.

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Woe, grief, affliction; also, an utterance of sorrow, distress, or lamentation; hire song was wei-la, she expressed her grief, she was grief-stricken. …

6. ā̆-wei interj.

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Expressing regret or grief: alas!, oh! …

7. wei-lā̆-wei interj.

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An exclamation expressive of grief, dismay, or regret: (a) alas, woe; oh; wei-la-wei and alas, alas and wei-la-wei;—freq. used in direct speech; crien (seien, etc.) wei-la-wei (b) with hou or that……

8. ō-wai adv.

Additional spellings: owai
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For all time, forever. …

9. miswei n.

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A false path or mistaken notion; digression; gon miswei, to be diverted or infatuated. …

10. weied ppl.

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Supplied with roads; not weied, trackless, pathless, desolate; thre weied, where three ways meet, having a meeting of three roads. …

11. wei adj.

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Sad, wretched; also, angry. …

12. nō-weies adv.

Additional spellings: noweies
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In no way, by no means, not at all. …

13. cros-wei adv.

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So as to make a cross. …

14. half-wei adv.

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Halfway; half-wei mid-morwe (prime, to prime), halfway between sunup and mid-morn (prime). …

15. sǒm-waies adv.

Additional spellings: somwaies
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Somehow. …

16. ǒutwei n.

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A byway. …

17. ǒutwei adv.

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In phr. outwei goinge, going astray, departing from the right way. …

18. thurgh-weies n. plural

Additional spellings: thurghweies
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Passable ways, passageways;—lit. transl. of the two elements of L perviae. …

19. overwei n.

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Arch. One of the squared beams used to form the upper edges of a wharf. …

20. cros(se-wei n.

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(a) A place where roads or paths meet or cross, a fork in the road; also, a side path or road; maken crosse-weies, to make tracks off to the side, go back and forth crossing one's own trail; (b) the……

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