whole 
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whole-note (hol'not), n. See note^, 14 — Whole- 
ouly have been driven, the rest remaining un 
touched, or before "working the broken "has noterest. See regfi 8 (6). ,.,,,, ,1^ 
begun. [North. Eng.] -A Ue out of whole cloth, wholesale (]">l'sal)^ «. and «. [< whole + said.] 
See lie-.— In or With a whole skin. 
See sH».— The 
Whole box and dice. See dfces.— The whole kit. See 
kit.': —The whole world. See world. —To go the whole 
figure, the whole hog. See 30.— Upon the whole 
matter. See iiMMer.— Whole blood, culverln, curva- 
ture. See the nouns.— Whole cadence. Same as i«)-- 
fect cadetice (which see, under crtd^/ice). — Whole chest. 
See tea-chest. — Whole cradle, in minimi, a platform sus- 
pended in the shaft, and nearly as large as the shaft itself : 
such a platform or cradle is hung by chains to a crab-rope 
let down from the surface, and is used for repairs, etc.— 
Whole deal See deal^, 1. —Whole flat, in working coal 
by the panel or barrier system, a whole panel, or such a 
portion of a seam as is distinctly separated from the rest 
by a barrier. [North. Eng.]— Whole milk. See ma*.— 
Whole number, an integer, as opposed to a fraction.— 
Whole press, hand-pressworlj done by two men, one to 
ink and one to print.— Whole Shift. Hee shift, 2.— Whole 
Bine of a circle, the radius.— Whole stalls, in mining, 
whoop 
The wholeemnenesse and temperature of this climate 
doth not onely argue the people to be answerable to this 
Description, but also of a perfect constitution of body. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, 1. 108. 
2. Salutariness; eondueiveness to mental, mor- 
al, or social health. 
Noble; generous; 
I. n. Sale of goods by the piece or in large quan 
tity, as distinguished from retail By wholesale 
(or, elliptically, wholesale), in the mass; in the gross; 
in great quantities; hence, without due discrimination wnOle-SOUled (hoi sold), a. 
or distinction. hearty. 
And are those fit to correct the Church that are not fit wholO-Stitch (hol'stich), n. In lace, the sim- 
to come into it? Besides, What makes them fly out upon pjggj j^j^d of filling, in which the threads are 
the Function, and rail 6y wWesaie.? Is the Priesthood J^„„p„ t„£,pti,p. as in cloth 
a crime, and the service of God a Disadvantage? woven togetner, as in eiotn. 
Jeremy Collier, Short View (ed. 1698), p. 139. whoUy (ho li), adv. [With unong. w, as in 
Tx 1 T> • J IT V J.V. ■ „ „ wJiole ; ToroTO- holelu ov holly, <. MY,, holely, hoolli, 
II. a. 1. Buying and selling by the piece or i,oliyXm%mchi; < whole + -hj^.} l.Entirel 
m large quantity : as a wholesale dealer.- 2. ^'o^pi^tely ; perfectly ; without reserve. 
Pertaining to the trade by the piece or quan- v > -" f- j i 1 j ' 
tity: as, the wholesale -pride. — 3. Figuratively, 
in great quantities; extensive and indiscrimi- 
nate : as, wholesale slaughter. 
saled, ppr. wholesaling. [< wholesale, n.] To 
sell by wholesale or in large quantities. 
wholesaler (hol'sa-lfer), n. [< wholesale + -eri.] 
One who sells by wholesale ; a wholesale mer- 
chant. 
Articles which the consumer recognizes as single the 
retailer keeps wrapped up in dozens, the wholesaler sends 
the gross, and the manufacturer supplies in packages of 
a hundred gross. H. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., § 176. 
whole-skinned (hol'skind), a. Having the skin 
unbroken; sound; uninjured. 
He is whole skinn'd, has no hurt yet. 
Fletcher, Rule a Wife, i. 1. 
whole-snipe (hol'snip), «. The common snipe, 
Gallinago media or G. ccelestis, of Europe: so 
called in distinction from double-snipe ariihalf- 
syiipe (see these words). 
wholesome (hol'sum), a. [With unorig. w, as 
in whole; prop., as in early mod. E., holesome; 
< ME. holsom, holsum, helsum, halsum, whole- 
some, salutary (not in AS.) ; prob. suggested by 
Icel. heilsamr, wholesome, salutary, < heill, = 
E. whole, + j-samr = E. -some : see whole and '^]iomso (hom'so), 2>ron. 
a certain number of Stalls of which the faces are on a line wholesale (hoi sal), V. t; pret. and pp. whole- 
with each other. [South Wales coal-field.] — Whole step. " ---. ,„, 
See step, 14.— Whole tone. See tonei, 6. =Syn. 4 and 6. 
Entire, Total, etc. See complete. 
II. n. 1. An entire thing; a thing complete 
in itself; the entire or total assemblage of 
parts ; all of a thing without defect or excep- 
tion. 
It was not safe to leave him [Edward II. 1 a Part, by 
which he might afterward recover the whole. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 112. 
'Tis not the whxtle of life to live. 
Nor all of death to die. 
Montgomery, Oh, where shall rest be found? 
But, bad though they nearly all are as wholes, his [Dry- 
den's] plays contain passages which only the great mas- 
ters have surpassed. 
Lowell, Among my Books, Ist ser., p. 69. 
2. A complete system; a regular combination 
of parts ; an organic unity. 
All are but parts of one stupendous whole. 
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. 
Pope, Essay on Man, i. 267. 
Nature is not an aggregate of independent parts, but an 
organic whcie. Tyndall, Radiation, § 16. 
Actual whole. See actual. — By the wholet, wholesale. 
If the currier bought not leather hy the whole of the tan- 
ner, the shoemaker might have it at a more reasonable 
price. 
Greene, Quip for an Upstart Courtier (Harl. Misc., V. 411). 
Collective, composite, constituent, constituted 
whole. See the adjectives. — Committee of the whole. 
See comwiifee.— Definitive, dissimilar, essential, for- 
mal, logical, mathematical, metaphysical, natural 
whole. See the adjectives.— On or upon the whole, 
all circumstances being considered or balanced against 
one another ; upon a review of the whole matter. 
Upon the whole, I do not know but he is most fortunate 
who engages in the whirl through ambition, however tor- 
menting. Irving. (Imp. Diet.) 
The death of Elizabeth, though on the whole it improved 
Bacon's prospects, was in one respect an unfortunate 
event for him. Macaiday, Lord Bacon. 
Physical, positive, potential whole. See the adjec- 
tives. =SyTi. Total, totality, entirety, amount, aggregate, 
gross, sum. 
wholet (hol), adv. [< ME. hool; < whole, a. 
(prop, the adj. in predicate use).] Wholly; en- 
tirely. 
Therfore I aske yow counseile how we may beste be 
gouemed, ffor I putte me all hooll in youre ordenaunce. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 317. 
The Ills thou dost are wltole thine own, 
Thourt Principal and Instrument. 
Cowley, The Mistress, The Innocent, iii. 
whole-colored (horkuVord), «. All of one col- 
or; unieolorous ; concoior: opposed to party- 
colored. 
whole-footed (hol'fuf'ed), a. [< ME. hole- 
foted; i whole + footed.'] If. Web-footed. 
The hdefoted fowle to the flod hy^ez. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 538. 
2. Heavy-footed. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] — 
3. Unreserved; frank; free; easy; at ease; 
intimate. [Colloq.] 
His chief Remissions were when some of his nearest Re- 
lations were with him, or he with them, and then, as they 
say, he was whole-.footed ; but this was not often, nor long 
together. Rftger North, quoted in N. and Q., 7th ser., I. 447. 
whole-hoofed (hol'hott), o. Having undivided 
hoofs; solidungulate. 
whole-length (hol'length), «.^nd w. I. a. 1. 
Extending from end to end.- 
exhibiting the whole figure 
John Closterman wiis the artist who painted the whale- 
length portrait of Queen Anne now in the Guildhall. 
J. Ashton, .Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, II. 4.5. 
II. )(. A portrait or statue exhibiting the 
whole figure. 
wholeness (hol'nes), n. The state of being 
whole, complete, entire, or sound; entireness; 
totality; completeness. 
There never can be that actual wholeness of the world 
for us which there must be for the mind that renders the - ^ 
world one. T. H. Oreen, Prolegomena to Ethics, § 72. health ; salubrity. 
Sleep hath seized me wholly. Shak., Cymbeline, ii. 2. 7. 
To her my life I wholly sacrifice. 
Spenser, Colin Clout, 1. 475. 
2. Altogether; exclusively; only. 
Arthur seide, " I put me holly in God and in holy cherche, 
and in youre gode counseile." Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 104. 
A bully thinks honour consists wholly in being brave. ' 
Steele, Tatler, No. 217. 
wholth (holth), n. [< whole + -th ; intended to 
explain the lit. sense of health.'] Wholeness; 
soundness; health. [Rare.] 
That " perfect diapason " which constitutes health, or 
wholth, and for the use or abuse of which he, as a rational 
being, is answerable on soul and conscience to himself, 
to his fellow-men, and to his Maker. 
Dr. J. Brown, Spare Hours, Sd ser., p. 125. 
whom (hom), pron. The objective case (origi- 
nal dative) of who. 
whomever (hom-ev'er), pron. The objective 
case of whoever. 
whommle, whomble (hwom'l, hwom'bl), v. t. 
Dialectal forms of whemmle. 
I think I see the coble whomUed keel up. 
Scott, Antiquary, xl. 
Whommle, " to turn a trough, or any vessel, bottom up- 
wards, so that it will drain well " : used in West Virginia. 
Trans. Atner. Philol. Ass., XIV. 56. 
The objective ease of 
some.'] 1. Healthy; whole; sotmd in mind or 
body. [Obsolescent.] 
Like a mildew'd ear 
Blasting his wholesome brother. 
SItak., Hamlet, iii. 4. 65. 
The purifying influence scattered throughout the at- 
mosphere of the household by the presence of one youth- 
ful, fresh, and thoroughly wholesome heart. 
Hawthorne, Seven Gables, ix. whoop^ (hop), V. [Properly, as formerly, hoop, 
2. Tending to promote health; favoring health ; the initial »i- being unoriginal, as in whole, etc., 
whoso. 
whomsoever (hom'so-ev'er), pron. The objec- 
tive case of whosoever. 
whoobubt (ho'bub), n. Another spelling of 
whohuh. 
Had not the old man come in with a whoo-tnA against 
his daughter. Shak., W. T., iv. 4. 629. 
healthful; salubrious: as, wftote'owe airordiet; 
a wholesome climate. 
Or well of Helesey, whose waters, bycause they were 
bytter salt, and bareyne, ye sayd prophet helyd them and 
made them swete and holsome. 
Sir P. Ouylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 53. 
I did commend the black-oppressing humour to the 
most tvhelesome physic of thy health-giving air. 
Shak., L. L. L., i. 1. 235. 
The soile is not very fertile, subiect to much snow, the 
aire holesome. Purehas, Pilgrimage, p. 528. 
3. Contributing to liealth of mind or charac- 
ter; favorable mentally or morally; sound; sal- 
utary: as, wholesome advice ; wholesome doc- 
trines; loholesome truths. 
But to find citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws, 
that is an exceeding rare and hard thing ! 
Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), i. 
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the 
time. Thoreau, Walden, p. 147. 
With a wholesome fear of Burke and Dehrett before my 
eyes, I suppress the proper name of the noble maiden. 
Whyte Melville, Good for Nothing, i. 1. 
advantageous ; hence, prosper- 
4t. Profitable 
ous. 
When Shalt thou see thy wholesome days again ? 
Shak., Macbeth, iv. 3. 106. 
5. Clean and neat. [Now only prov. Eng.] 
For, how Negligent soever People may be at Home, 
yet when they come before their Betters 'tis Manners 
to look wholsom. 
Jeremy Collier, Short View (ed. 1698), p. 22. 
= Syn. Salutary, etc. (see healthy), nourishing, nutritious, 
r. /^^ i, 11 1 ii, invigorating, beneficial. 
2. Of full length ; wholesomely (hoi ' sum -li), adv. [< ME. hol- 
sumly, holsumliche ; < wholesome + -ly^.] In a 
wholesome or salutary manner; healthfully. 
The hende knyjt at home holsumly slepe 
With-inne the conily cortynes, on the colde morne. 
Sir Oawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1732. 
Consideration for his wife seemed a wholesomely perva- 
sive feeling with him. Scribner's Mag., IV. 749. 
wholesomeness (hol'sum-nes), n. [< ME. hol- 
sumncs.'ie; < wholesome + -ness.] 1. The qual- 
ity of being wholesome or of contributing to whoopl (hop) 
and the proper pron. being hop (as given in 
Walker), and not hwop, which, so far as it ex- 
ists, is a perverted pronunciation, prob. due to 
the spelling; < ME. hoiipen, howpen, whmopen, 
< OF. honper, whoop, shout; ef. hoitp! interj., 
houp-la! stop! stop there! Cf. hoop^, hubbub, 
whoobub. Tliere may have been some connection 
with AS. wop, outcry, weeping (mod. E. *u:oop), 
Goth, wopjan, crow as a cock, etc. (see weep); 
but none with Goth, hwopjan, boast.] I. in- 
trans. 1. To shout with a loud voice; cry out 
loudly, as in excitement, or in calling to some 
one ; halloo ; shout ; also, to hoot, as an owl. 
Hit fill that thei mette Merlin with the Dragon in his 
hande that com hem a-geins ; and as soone as he saugh 
hem comynge he gan to whoivpe. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 363. 
I whoope, I call. . . . Whooppe a lowde, and thou shalte 
here hym blow his home. Palsgrave, p. 781. 
The Gaules stood upon the banke with disstant hooping, 
hollaing, yelling, and singing, after their manner. 
HMand, tr. of Livy, p. 408. 
Sometimes they whoop, sometimes their Stygian cries 
Send their black Santos to the blushing skies. 
Quarles, Emblems, L 10. 
2. In )««<?., to make a sonorous inspiration, as 
that following the paroxysm of coughing in 
whooping-cough. 
II. trans. 1. To hoot at; insult or deride 
with shouts or hooting; drive or follow with 
shouts or outcry. 
Suffer'd me by the voice of slaves to be 
Whoop'd out of Rome. Shak., Cor., iv. .5. 84. 
If we complain, ... 
We are mad straight, and whoop'd, and tied in tetters. 
Fletcher and Rowley, Maid in the Mill, iii. 2. 
I should be hissed. 
And whooped in hell for that ingratitude. 
Dryden, Don Sebastian, ii. 1. 
2. To call or signal to by a shout or whoop. — 
To whoop it up, to raise an outcry or disturbance; 
hence, to hurry or stir matters up; work in a lively, 
rousing manner. [Slang.] 
His rival is a prominent iiolitician, with an abundance 
of party workers to whoop it up for him. 
*^ The Century, XXXVIII. 156. 
[Early mod. E. also hoop, 
howp: see xclwop^, v.] 1. A whooping or hoot- 
