Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A common herb of the Mint family (
Brunella vulgaris ), destitute of active properties, but anciently thought to be a panacea.
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- noun Alternative form of
heal-all .
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Examples
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With Uno, for example, she rubbed a touch of stinging mardroot-oil liniment into his heavily bruised shoulder, dabbed a bit of healall ointment on the fresh slash down his face no point wasting either and wrapped his head in bandages until he could hardly move his jaw before Healing him.
The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993
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"Let a man, twenty years of age or more, before the third hour of the vigil of St. John the Baptist, pull up by the roots a specimen of consolida major (comfrey) and another of consolida minor (healall), repeating thrice the Lord's prayer (_oratio dominica_).
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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