welling
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See also: Welling
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
welling
- present participle and gerund of well
Noun[edit]
welling (plural wellings)
- The act of something that wells, or issues forth like water.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 32:
- It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.
- 1947, T. A. Jaggar, Origin and Development of Craters:
- Later experience suggested that such wellings up of molten glass from caverns filled with active lava in a period of outflow might be due to sudden generation of steam from cascades of water during torrential rainfall.