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Whole (?), a. [OE. hole, hol, hal, hool, AS. h&ā;l well, sound, healthy; akin to OFries. & OS. h&unr_;l, D. heel, G. heil, Icel. heill, Sw. hel whole, Dan. heel, Goth. hails well, sound, OIr. c&unr_;l augury. Cf. Hale, Hail to greet, Heal to cure, Health, Holy.]
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1. Containing the total amount, number, 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.
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The whole race of mankind.
Shak.
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2. Complete; entire; not defective or imperfect; not broken or fractured; unimpaired; uninjured; integral; as, a whole orange; the egg is whole; the vessel is whole.
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My life is yet whole in me.
2 Sam. i. 9.
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3. Possessing, or being in a state of, heath and soundness; healthy; sound; well.
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[She] findeth there her friends hole and sound.
Chaucer.
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They that be whole need not a physician.
Matt. ix. 12.
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When Sir Lancelot's deadly hurt was whole.
Tennyson.
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Whole blood. (Law of Descent) See under Blood, n., 2. -- Whole note (Mus.), the note which represents a note of longest duration in common use; a semibreve. -- Whole number (Math.), a number which is not a fraction or mixed number; an integer. -- Whole snipe (Zo&ö;l.), the common snipe, as distinguished from the smaller jacksnipe. [Prov. Eng.]
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Syn. -- All; total; complete; entire; integral; undivided; uninjured; unimpaired; unbroken; healthy. -- Whole, Total, Entire, Complete. When we use the word whole, we refer to a thing as made up of parts, none of which are wanting; as, a whole week; a whole year; the whole creation. When we use the word total, we have reference to all as taken together, and forming a single totality; as, the total amount; the total income. When we speak of a thing as entire, we have no reference to parts at all, but regard the thing as an integer, i. e., continuous or unbroken; as, an entire year; entire prosperity. When we speak of a thing as complete, there is reference to some progress which results in a filling out to some end or object, or a perfected state with no deficiency; as, complete success; a complete victory.
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All the whole army stood agazed on him.
Shak.
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One entire and perfect chrysolite.
Shak.
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Lest total darkness should by night regain
Her old possession, and extinguish life.
Milton.
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So absolute she seems,
And in herself complete.
Milton.
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Whole (?), n. 1. The entire thing; the entire assemblage of parts; totality; all of a thing, without defect or exception; a thing complete in itself.
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“This not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.
J. Montgomery.
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2. A regular combination of parts; a system.
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Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
Pope.
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Committee of the whole. See under Committee. -- Upon the whole, considering all things; taking everything into account; in view of all the circumstances or conditions.
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Syn. -- Totality; total; amount; aggregate; gross.
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