wholesale (holsal)

and a. [ or distinction. And are those fit to correct the Church that are not fit to come into it? Besides, What makes them fly out upon the Function, and rail by wholesale? Is the Priesthood a crime, and the service of God a Disadvantage? only have been driven, the rest remaining unwhole-note (hol'nōt), n. See notel, 14. - Whole touched, or before "working the broken" has begun. [North. Eng.] - A lie out of whole cloth. See lie. In or with a whole skin. See skin. - The whole box and dice. See dice3. - The whole kit. See kits. The whole world. See world. To go the whole figure, the whole hog. See go. - Upon the whole matter. See matter. - Whole blood, culverin, curvature. See the nouns. - Whole cadence. Same as perfect cadence (which see, under cadence ). - Whole chest. See tea - chest. Whole cradle, in mining, a platform suspended in the shaft, and nearly as large as the shaft itself: such a platform or cradle is hung by chains to a crab-rope let down from the surface, and is used for repairs, etc.Whole deal. See deal2, 1.-Whole flat, in working coal by the panel or barrier system, a whole panel, or such a portion of a seam as is distinctly separated from the rest by a barrier. [North. Eng.]-Whole milk. See milk. Whole number, an integer, as opposed to a fraction.Whole pre , hand-pre work done by two men, one to ink and one to print. - Whole shift. See shift, 2. - Whole sine of a circle, the radius. - Whole stalls, in mining, a certain number of stalls of which the faces are on a line with each other. [South Wales coal-field.] - Whole step. See step, 14. Whole tone. See tonel, 5. =Syn. 4 and 5. Entire, Total, etc. See complete. II. n. 1. An entire thing; a thing complete in itself; the entire or total a emblage of parts; all of a thing without defect or exсерtion. It was not safe to leave him [Edward II.) a Part, by which he might afterward recover the whole . Baker , Chronicles, p. 112. 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die. Montgomery, Oh, where shall rest be found? Jeremy Collier , Short View (ed. 1698), p. 139. II. a. 1. Buying and selling by the piece or in large quantity: as, a wholesale dealer.-2. Pertaining to the trade by the piece or quantity: as, the wholesale price.-3. Figuratively, in great quantities; extensive and indiscriminate: as, wholesale slaughter. wholesale (hōl'sāl), v. t.; pret. and pp. whole saled , ppr. wholesaling . [ wholesale , n.] Το sell by wholesale or in large quantities. wholesaler (hol'sā-ler), n. [ wholesale + -er1.] One who sells by wholesale; a wholesale mer chant. Articles which the consumer recognizes as single the retailer keeps wrapped up in dozens, the wholesaler sends the gro , and the manufacturer supplies in packages of a hundred gro . H. Spencer , Prin. of Biol., § 176. whole-skinned (hōl's kind), a. Having the skin unbroken; sound; uninjured. He is whole skinn'd , has no hurt yet. But, bad though they nearly all are as wholes , his [Dry Fletcher , Rule a Wife, 1. 1. den's) plays contain pa ages which only the great masters have surpa ed. whole-snipe (höl'snīp), n. The common snipe, Lowell , Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 59. Gall in a go media or G. cœlest is , of Europe: so 2. A complete system; a regular combination called in distinction from double - snipe and half of parts; an organic unity. snipe (see these words). wholesome (hōl's um), a . All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. Pope, E ay on Man, i. 267. Nature is not an aggregate of independent parts, but an organic whole . Tyndall , Radiation, § 16. Actual whole. See actual . - By the wholet, wholesale. If the currier bought not leather by the whole of the tanner, the shoo maker might have it at a more reasonable price. Greene, Quip for an Upstart Courtier (Harl. Misc., V. 411). Collective, composite, constituent, constituted whole. See the adjectives. - Committee of the whole. See committee. - Definitive, di imilar, e ential, formal, logical, mathematical, metaphysical, natural whole. See the adjectives. On or upon the whole, all circumstances being considered or balanced against one another; upon a review of the whole matter. Upon the whole , I do not know but he is most fortunate who engages in the whirl through ambition, however tormenting. Irving. (Imp. Dict.) The death of Elizabeth, though on the whole it improved Bacon's prospects, was in one respect an unfortunate Macaulay, Lord Bacon. event for him. Physical, positive, potential whole. See the adjectives. Syn. Total, totality, entirety, amount, aggregate, gro , sum. wholet (hol), adv. [ Therfore I aske yow counseile how we may beste be gouerned, ffor I putte me all hooll in youre or den a unce. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 817. The Ills thou dost are whole thine own, Thou'rt Principal and Instrument. Cowley, The Mistre , The Innocent, iii. whole-colored (hōl'kul"ord), a. All of one color; unicolorous; concolor: opposed to party colored. whole-footed (hōl'fûted), a . [ foted ; whole + footed .] 14. Web-footed. The hole foted fowle to the flod hyzez, Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 538. 2. Heavy-footed. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] 3. Unreserved; frank; free; easy; at ease; intimate. [Colloq.] His chief Remi ions were when some of his nearest Relations were with him, or he with them, and then, as they say, he was whole - footed ; but this was not often, nor long together. Roger North , quoted in N. and Q., 7th ser., I. 447. whole-hoofed (hol'höft), a . Having undivided hoofs; solidungulate.