Weal

1. v. t. To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous.
2. n. The mark of a stripe. See Wale.
3. v. t. To mark with stripes. See Wale.
4. adv. A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare.
5. adv. The body politic; the state; common wealth.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.