Word Meanings - HOL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Whole. Chaucer.

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• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• WHOLESALE
  Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail. By wholesale, in the mass; in large quantities; without distinction or discrimination. Some, from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by
• WHOLE-SOULED
  Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.
• WHOLESOME
  1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary. Wholesome thirst and appetite. Milton. From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food. A Smith. 2. Contributing to the health of the
• WHOLE
  healthy; akin to OFries. & OS. h, D. heel, G. heil, Icel. heill, Sw. hel whole, Dan. heel, Goth. hails well, sound, OIr. c augury. Cf. 1. Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire;
• WHOLE-LENGTH
  Representing the whole figure; -- said of a picture or statue. -- n.
• UNWHOLE
  Not whole; unsound.
• HEWHOLE
  The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.
• BLOWHOLE
  An air hole in a casting. (more info) 1. A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity. 2. A nostril or spiracle in the
• HEART-WHOLE
  1. Having the heart or affections free; not in love. Shak. 2. With unbroken courage; undismayed. 3. Of a single and sincere heart. If he keeps heart-whole towards his Master. Bunyan.