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Whole \Whole\, a. [OE. hole, hol, hal, hool, AS. h[=a]l well,
sound, healthy; akin to OFries. & OS. h?l, D. heel, G. heil,
Icel. heill, Sw. hel whole, Dan. heel, Goth. hails well,
sound, OIr. c?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} (Zool.), 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.
Usage: {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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Blood \Blood\ (bl[u^]d), n. [OE. blod, blood, AS. bl[=o]d; akin
to D. bloed, OHG. bluot, G. blut, Goth. bl[=o][thorn], Icel.
bl[=o][eth], Sw. & Dan. blod; prob. fr. the same root as E.
blow to bloom. See {Blow} to bloom.]
1. The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular
system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of
the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted.
See under {Arterial}.
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Note: The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing
minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the
invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless,
and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all
vertebrates, except Amphioxus, it contains some
colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and
give the blood its uniformly red color. See
{Corpuscle}, {Plasma}.
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2. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor;
consanguinity; kinship.
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To share the blood of Saxon royalty. --Sir W.
Scott.
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A friend of our own blood. --Waller.
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{Half blood} (Law), relationship through only one parent.
{Whole blood}, relationship through both father and mother.
In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole
blood. --Bouvier. --Peters.
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3. Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest
royal lineage.
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Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam. --Shak.
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I am a gentleman of blood and breeding. --Shak.
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4. (Stock Breeding) Descent from parents of recognized breed;
excellence or purity of breed.
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Note: In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one
half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or
warm blood, is the same as blood.
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5. The fleshy nature of man.
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Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood. --Shak.
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6. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder;
manslaughter; destruction.
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So wills the fierce, avenging sprite,
Till blood for blood atones. --Hood.
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7. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [R.]
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He was a thing of blood, whose every motion
Was timed with dying cries. --Shak.
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8. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as
if the blood were the seat of emotions.
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When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth.
--Shak.
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Note: Often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm,
or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in
cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without
sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in
anger. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or
irritated. To warm or heat the blood is to excite the
passions. Qualified by up, excited feeling or passion
is signified; as, my blood was up.
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9. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man;
a rake.
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Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all
the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
--Shak.
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It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood.
--Thackeray.
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10. The juice of anything, especially if red.
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He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes.
--Gen. xiix.
11.
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Note: Blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first
part of self-explaining compound words; as,
blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling,
blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained,
blood-warm, blood-won.
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{Blood baptism} (Eccl. Hist.), the martyrdom of those who had
not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in
blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for
literal baptism.
{Blood blister}, a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody
serum, usually caused by an injury.
{Blood brother}, brother by blood or birth.
{Blood clam} (Zool.), a bivalve mollusk of the genus Arca and
allied genera, esp. {Argina pexata} of the American coast.
So named from the color of its flesh.
{Blood corpuscle}. See {Corpuscle}.
{Blood crystal} (Physiol.), one of the crystals formed by the
separation in a crystalline form of the h[ae]moglobin of
the red blood corpuscles; h[ae]matocrystallin. All blood
does not yield blood crystals.
{Blood heat}, heat equal to the temperature of human blood,
or about 981/2 [deg] Fahr.
{Blood horse}, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from
the purest and most highly prized origin or stock.
{Blood money}. See in the Vocabulary.
{Blood orange}, an orange with dark red pulp.
{Blood poisoning} (Med.), a morbid state of the blood caused
by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from
without, or the absorption or retention of such as are
produced in the body itself; tox[ae]mia.
{Blood pudding}, a pudding made of blood and other materials.
{Blood relation}, one connected by blood or descent.
{Blood spavin}. See under {Spavin}.
{Blood vessel}. See in the Vocabulary.
{Blue blood}, the blood of noble or aristocratic families,
which, according to a Spanish prover, has in it a tinge of
blue; -- hence, a member of an old and aristocratic
family.
{Flesh and blood}.
(a) A blood relation, esp. a child.
(b) Human nature.
{In blood} (Hunting), in a state of perfect health and vigor.
--Shak.
{To let blood}. See under {Let}.
{Prince of the blood}, the son of a sovereign, or the issue
of a royal family. The sons, brothers, and uncles of the
sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the
daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood
royal.
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