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 Lancelot's 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 (Zoöl.), 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. The entire 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.