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well-aˈnear, int. Obs. exc. dial.
[app. altered f. wellaway by substitution of anear.]
Alas! alack-a-day!
1600Look about you ii. B 1 b, Now well a neere that ere I liu'd to see, Such patience and so much impiety. 1608Shakes. Per. iii. Prol. 51 The Lady shreekes, and wel-a⁓neare, Do's fall in trauayle with her feare. 1640J. D. Knave in Grain iii. i. G 2, Wherefore was it? well a neare. 1677W. Nicolson in Trans. R. Soc. Lit. (1870) Ser. ii. IX. 322 Wellaneer, well away, alack-a-day. 1787Grose Prov. Gloss., Wellaneer. Alas. N. a1836in ‘S. Gilpin’ Pop. Poetry Cumb. (1875) 207 Bit, welleneer! when he sud tean his kiss,..Hur elbow rease an' barr'd him fra his bliss.
So well-aˈnearing, in same sense.
1683G. M[eriton] Yorks. Dial. 4 Wellaneerin, wellaneerin, run fast run, Hye thee Hobb, and bid my Mawgh Herry come. Ibid. 7 Ey wallaneerin, wilta gang and see. 1703Thoresby Let. to Ray, Wellaneering, alas. |