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A touchhole; a vent.

The open space in a floor, to accommodate a staircase.

umber, etc.; comprising all the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire; as, the whole earth; the whole solar system; the whole army; the whole nation. "On their whole host I flew unarmed." Milton. The whole race of mankind. Shak.

Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.

Representing the whole figure; -- said of a picture or statue. -- n.

Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.

The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.

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 wholesale. I. Watts.

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.

A place where wood is stored.

A burrow made by a worm.

The first three letters of the alphabet, used for the whole alphabet.

An abridgment; a compendium or abstract. This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a Christian. Jer. Taylor.

ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. "The whole tribe abets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.

ways in the right, To your decays adapts my sight. Swift. Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature. Angus. Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. Macaulay.

Relating to procedure. "The whole English law, substantive and adjective." Macaulay.

-- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

advantaged his adversaries against him. Fuller. What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away Luke ix. 25. To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]

The act of pouring water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in disease. Dunglison.

r their intrinsic value. Bacon. After all, when everything has been considered; upon the whole. -- After (with the same noun preceding and following), as, wave after wave, day after day, several or many (waves, etc.) successively. -- One after another, successively. -- To be after, to be in pursuit of in order to re…