a. Obs. Also 7 wealie, weally. For obscure origin; common in P. Holland.] Of land: Unproductive, marshy, poor.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XVII. viii. I. 506. If the ground be cold, moist, and weely. Ibid. (1610), Camden’s Brit., 203. This river [Ex] hath his head and springeth first in a weely and barren ground named Exmore. Ibid., 364. Flockes of sheepe long necked and square of bulke and bone, by reason (as it is commonly thought) of the weally and hilly situation of their pasturage.
1610. Folkingham, Feudigr., I. x. 33. Sandy Marle serues (for want of other) chiefely in cold moist and weely grounds.
