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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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HEAL v. 2 definitions

To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health. Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. Matt. viii. 8.

The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain. There is no health in us. Book of Common Prayer. Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not be sported with without loss, or regained by courage. Buckminster.…

HEALTHFUL a. 2 definitions

Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.

HEALTHFULLY adv.

In health; wholesomely.

Not conducive to health; unwholesome. [R.]

Wholesome; salubrious. [R.] "Healthsome air." Shak.

Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.

HEEL n. 2 definitions

The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; -- in man or quadrupeds. He [the stag] calls to mind his strength and then his speed, His winged heels and then his armed head. Denham.

sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope.

HEMI-DEMI-SEMIQUAVER n.

A short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note.

ies of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.

A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. The whole arrangement was surrounded by a hoarding, the space within which was divided into compartments by sheets of tin. Tyndall.

Whole. [Obs.] Chaucer.

HOLD n. 2 definitions

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

Whole. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A combining form fr. Gr. "o`los whole.

Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic.

A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations. Milton.

HOLOHEMIHEDRAL a.

Presenting hemihedral forms, in which all the sectants have halt the whole number of planes. Dana.

Wholesome. [Obs.] Chaucer.