Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Well \Well\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Welled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Welling}.] [OE. wellen, AS. wyllan, wellan, fr. weallan;
   akin to OFries. walla, OS. & OHG. wallan, G. wallen, Icel.
   vella, G. welle, wave, OHG. wella, walm, AS. wylm; cf. L.
   volvere to roll, Gr. ? to inwrap, ? to roll. Cf. {Voluble},
   {Wallop} to boil, {Wallow}, {Weld} of metal.]
   To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
   ``[Blood] welled from out the wound.'' --Dryden. ``[Yon
   spring] wells softly forth.'' --Bryant.

         From his two springs in Gojam's sunny realm, Pure
         welling out, he through the lucid lake Of fair Dambea
         rolls his infant streams.                --Thomson.