Whole
whole (?), a. (OE. hole, hol,hal, hool, AS. hal well, sound, healthy; akin to
OFries.
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.
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.
My life is yet whole in me. 2 Sam. i.
9.
3. Possessing, or being in a state of, heath and
soundness; healthy; sound; well.
(She) findeth there her friends hole and
sound. Chaucer.
They that be whole need not a physician.
Matt. ix. 12.
When Sir Lancelots deadly hurt was
whole. Tennyson.
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 (Zool.), the
common snipe, as distinguished from the smaller jacksnipe. (Prov.
Eng.)
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.
All the whole army stood agazed on him.
Shak.
One entire and perfect chrysolite.
Shak.
Lest total darkness should by night regain
Her old possession, and extinguish life. Milton.
So absolute she seems,
And in herself complete. Milton.
whole (?), n. 1. Theentire thing; the entire assemblage of parts; totality; all of a thing,
without defect or exception; a thing complete in itself.
This not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die. J. Montgomery.
2. A regular combination of parts; a
system.
Parts answering parts shall slide into a
whole. Pope.
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.
Syn. -- Totality; total; amount; aggregate; gross.
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