Search for: Healing
9481 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SCAB.2 (Noah Webster)
1. An encrusted substance, dry and rough, formed over a sore in healing.
9482 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.
9483 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.
9484 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.
9485 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.]
9486 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SHELTER.3 (Noah Webster)
The healing plant shall aid,
9487 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.
9488 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SLACKNESS.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Slowness; tardiness; want of tendency; as the slackness of flesh to heal.
9489 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 .
9490 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STRIPE.9 (Noah Webster)
By his stripes are we healed. Isaiah 53:5 .
9491 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 …
9492 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.
9493 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.
9494 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.
9495 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.
9496 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. UNION.13 (Noah Webster)
… self-healing power in living bodies.
9497 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VETERINARY.1 (Noah Webster)
… of healing or treating the diseases of domestic animals, as oxen, horses, sheep, etc. A veterinary college was established in England in 1792, at St. Pancras, in …
9498 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VULNERARY.1 (Noah Webster)
VULNERARY, a. Useful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external injuries; as vulnerary plants or potions.
9499 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WHOLE.1 (Noah Webster)
WHOLE, a. Hole. [G., Gr. This seems to be connected with heal, hale. Of this the derivative wholesome, is evidence.]
9500 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WORST.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Most severe or dangerous; most difficult to heal; as the worst disease.