1. In a good or proper manner; justly; rightly; not ill or wickedly.

If thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.

Gen. iv. 7.

2. Suitably to one's condition, to the occasion, or to a proposed end

or use; suitably; abundantly; fully; adequately; thoroughly.

Lot . . . beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered

everywhere.

Gen. xiii. 10.

WE are wellable to overcome it.

Num. xiii. 30.

She looketh well to the ways of her household.

Prov. xxxi. 27.

Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight.

Milton.

3. Fully or about; — used with numbers. [Obs.] "Well a ten or twelve."

Chaucer.

Well nine and twenty in a company.

Chaucer.

4. In such manner as is desirable; so as one could wish;

satisfactorily; favorably; advantageously; conveniently. "It boded well

to you." Dryden.

Know In measure what the mind may well contain.

Milton.

All the world speaks well of you.

Pope.

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