to be well in with sb

  • 1Well drainage — means drainage of agricultural lands by wells. Agricultural land is drained by pumped wells (vertical drainage) to improve the soils by controlling water table levels and soil salinity. Contents 1 Introduction 2 Design 3 Flow to wells 4 …

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  • 2Well-spoken — Well spo ken, a. [Well + speak.] [1913 Webster] 1. Speaking well; speaking with fitness or grace; speaking kindly. A knight well spoken. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Spoken with propriety; as, well spoken words. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 3Well-informed — Well in*formed , a. Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 4Well-known — a. Fully known; generally known or acknowledged. [1913 Webster] A church well known with a well known rite. M. Arnold. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 5well-fished — well supplied with fish …

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  • 6Well-order — In mathematics, a well order relation (or well ordering) on a set S is a total order on S with the property that every non empty subset of S has a least element in this ordering.Equivalently, a well ordering is a well founded total order.The set… …

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  • 7well — I. noun Etymology: Middle English welle, from Old English; akin to Old English weallan to bubble, boil, Old High German wella wave, Lithuanian vilnis Date: before 12th century 1. a. an issue of water from the earth ; a pool fed by a spring b.… …

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  • 8Well-Manicured Man — Xfiles character name=Well Manicured Man affiliation=Syndicate first=The Blessing Way last=The X Files (feature movie) portrayer=John NevilleThe Well Manicured Man (abbreviated to WMM) is a fictional character played by John Neville on the 1990s… …

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  • 9Well kill — A well kill refers to the operation of placing a column of heavy fluid into a well bore in order to prevent the flow of reservoir fluids without the need for pressure control equipment at the surface. It works on the principle that the weight of… …

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  • 10well-found — /wel fownd /, adj. well furnished with supplies, necessaries, etc.: a well found ship. [1300 50 for earlier sense welcome ; ME] * * * …

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