Definitions
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- adj. wholesome
- adj. healthy
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A dialectal (Scotch) variant of wholesome.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Whether they are stirred in with a wooden spoon or, as Mitchell advises, with a spurtle or a gruel-tree Shetland usage is probably optional, but the addition of cream or milk – never sugar – completes a winter experience that can only be described as truly halesome.
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"They're fine halesome food – they're grand food, parritch," he pronounces to his nephew David.
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The halesome parritch, [324-33] chief o 'Scotia's food:
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[324-33] The _halesome parritch_ is the _wholesome porridge_ of oatmeal.
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"The halesome parritch, chief of Scotia's food," said Burns, with fervid eloquence.
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A plate of sliced turnips and a dish of baked potatoes completed their "halesome farin '."
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Go out into the supply camp and look at "the grub pile" – the great quarters of beef, naked and rosy – turn over the jagged vertebræ of a Manitoban range-ox and wonder however it grew; poke your fingers into sacks of rolled oats for "halesome parritch," rice, beans, and flour; poke two fingers, three if you like, into the raisins, prunes, peaches and syrup, and then put them in your mouth.
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The halesome parritch, chief of Scotia's food: [wholesome]
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` ` Your honour winna persuade me, and naebody shall persuade me, that it's either halesome or prudent to tak the night air on thae moors without a cordial o 'clow-gilliflower water, or
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Have ye never a word to say, ye scorners of the halesome word, ye blaspheming despisers of doctrine?
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
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