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   Whole (?), a. [OE. hole, hol, hal, hool, AS. hāl well, sound, healthy; akin to OFries. & OS. hl, D. heel, G. heil, Icel. heill, Sw. hel whole, Dan. heel, Goth. hails well, sound, OIr. cl 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.  -- 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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