Chapter Whittlings to Whose of W by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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
(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.

2. A regular combination of parts; a system.

Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

Pope.

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.

Syn. — Totality; total; amount; aggregate; gross.

Whole-hoofed
(Whole"-hoofed`) a. Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.

Whole-length
(Whole"-length`) a. Representing the whole figure; — said of a picture or statue. — n. A portrait or statue representing the whole figure.

Wholeness
(Whole"ness), n. The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.

Wholesale
(Whole"sale`) n. Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail.

By wholesale, in the mass; in large quantities; without distinction or discrimination.

Some, from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale.

I. Watts.

Wholesale
(Whole"sale`), a.

1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price.

2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for wholesale trust." Mrs. Humphry Ward.

Wholesome
(Whole"some) a. [Compar. Wholesomer ; superl. Wholesomest.] [Whole + some; cf. Icel. heilsamr, G. heilsam, D. heilzaam.]