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Whole. [Obs.] Chaucer.

= Air hole, above.

Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race. The holethnic history of the Arians. London Academy.

A parent stock or race of people, not yet divided into separate branches or tribes.

A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.

A hole for the arm in a garment.

on; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air. A discipline of unlimited…

A hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to breathe.

See Bung, n., 2. Shak.

The hole or loop in which a button is caught.

One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.

The gall bladder.

The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.

A treatise on the bile and bilary organs. Dunglison.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid.

cibility. [Obs.] His [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. I. Warton.

ntestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera. Asiatic cholera, a malignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or specific poison may have been carried. It is characterize…

Relating to, or resulting from, or resembling, cholera.

Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile. Dryden.

In a choleric manner; angrily.