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Gazing with astonishment; amazed. [Obs.] The whole army stood agazed on him. Shak.

The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime. Mine age is as nothing before thee. Ps. xxxix. 5.

Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.

That which surrounds and influences. The keen, the wholesome air of poverty. Wordsworth.

A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole.

The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us). Prove all things: hold fast th…

Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. [Obs.] Bacon.

Acknowledgment. The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak.

He to England shall along with you. Shak. All along, all trough the course of; during the whole time; throughout. "I have all along declared this to be a neutral paper." Addison. -- To get along, to get on; to make progress, as in business. "She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I." Mrs. Stowe.…

To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate.

ach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.

e, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.

r of being inclined to anger. Such an angriness of humor that we take fire at everything. Whole Duty of Man.

arly a uniform temperature. -- Animal spirits. See under Spirit. -- Animal kingdom, the whole class of beings endowed with animal life. It embraces several subkingdoms, and under these there are Classes, Orders, Families, Genera, Species, and sometimes intermediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but various…

pirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of animation. Landor.

mmon rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous. We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men. Burke. As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly. Darwin.…

A displacement of an organ, esp. of the uterus, in such manner that its whole axis is directed further forward than usual.

The remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone. [Obs.]

common name, distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, st…

After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.