int. Obs. rare. [OE. weʓ lá: see WELLAWAY, and cf. WELLA int.] Alas!
c. 1000. Ags. Ps. lxix. 4 (Thorpe). Ealle … þe me word cwædon, Weʓla, weʓla [Vulg. qui dicunt mihi, Euge, euge].
c. 1230. Hali Meid. (1922), 23. Weila þat reowðe. Ibid., 39. Weila [v.r. wala], lutel þarf þe carien for þin anes liueneð.
