[Misspelt form of WEAL v.]
1. trans. To mark with wales or weals.
1698. Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 135. Batts and Wasps … following their Aggressors till they have Whealed them into Contrition for their unadvised Provocation.
1701. Stanhope, Pious Breathings, VII. xii. 339. His Body rent and whealed with Scourges.
1813. Sporting Mag., XLI. 24. The horse … would have been whipped and whealed.
1845. S. Judd, Margaret, I. ii. His eyes were bloodshot, his cheeks whealed and puffed.
1868. Browning, Ring & Bk., V. 135. I … now am whealed, one wide wound all of me.
2. intr. To be marked with weals or ridges.
1570. Googe, Pop. Kingd., III. 34 b. The bloud sprang out a pace, and eke their backe did swell and wheale With multitude of stripes.
