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7961 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SANATIVENESS.1 (Noah Webster)
SANATIVENESS, n. The power of healing.
7962 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SANICLE.1 (Noah Webster)
SANICLE, n. [from L. sano, to heal.] Self-heal, a plant or genus of plants, the Sanicula; also, a plant of the genus Saxifraga. The American bastard sanicle is of the genus Mitella, and the bear’s ear sanicle of the genus Cortusa.
7963 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SARCOCOL.2 (Noah Webster)
… in healing wounds and ulcers.
7964 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SAVE.1 (Noah Webster)
SAVE, v.t. [L. salvo. As salve is used in Latin for salutation or wishing health, as hail is in English, I suspect this word to be from the root of heal or hail, the first letter being changed. Gr. See Salt .]
7965 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SCAB.2 (Noah Webster)
1. An encrusted substance, dry and rough, formed over a sore in healing.
7966 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SCAR.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal made by a wound or an ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed. The soldier is proud of his scars.
7967 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SELF-HEAL.1 (Noah Webster)
SELF-HEAL, n. [self and heal.] A plant of the genus Sanicula, and another of the genus Prunella.
7968 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SELF-HEALING.1 (Noah Webster)
SELF-HEALING, a. Having the power or property of healing itself. The self-healing power of living animals and vegetables is a property as wonderful as it is indicative of divine goodness.
7969 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SHADOW.40 (Noah Webster)
9. To represent typically. The healing power of the serpent shadoweth the efficacy of Christ’s righteousness. [The two last senses are in use. In place of the others, shade is now more generally used.]
7970 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SHELTER.3 (Noah Webster)
The healing plant shall aid,
7971 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SICK.7 (Noah Webster)
5. The sick, the person or persons affected with the disease. The sick are healed.
7972 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SLACKNESS.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Slowness; tardiness; want of tendency; as the slackness of flesh to heal.
7973 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPEAK.9 (Noah Webster)
1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately; as human beings. They sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him. Job 2:13. Speak the word, and my son shall be healed. Matthew 8:8 .
7974 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STRIPE.9 (Noah Webster)
By his stripes are we healed. Isaiah 53:5 .
7975 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SURGERY.1 (Noah Webster)
… of healing by manual operation; or that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body. In …
7976 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SYMPATHETIC.5 (Noah Webster)
… be healed, though the patient is at a distance. This opinion is discarded as charlatanry.
7977 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TENT.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In surgery, a roll of lint or linen, used to dilate an opening in the flesh, or to prevent the healing of an opening from which matter or other fluid is discharged.
7978 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THERAPEUTIC.1 (Noah Webster)
THERAPEUTIC, a. [Gr. to nurse, serve or cure.] Curative; that pertains to the healing art; that is concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases.
7979 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ULCER.2 (Noah Webster)
A sore; a solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the body, attend with a secretion of pus or some kind of discharge. Ulcers on the lungs are seldom healed.
7980 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. UNION.13 (Noah Webster)
… self-healing power in living bodies.