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verb

Heal v. t. To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like. (Obs.)

Heal v. t. (past & past part. healed; pres. part. healing)

To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health. "Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed."

To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; said of a disease or a wound. "I will heal their backsliding."

To restore to original purity or integrity. "Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters."

To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.

Heal v. i. To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over. "Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves."

adjective

Healing adj. Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words. "Here healing dews and balms abound."

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Etymology of 'Healing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Healing" Quotes from Famous Books

... fervently, as we faced each other in that gloomy passage, and it somehow heartened me to note tears in his gray eyes. There was heart, then, under all his crabbedness. "I have suffered much of late both in spirit and flesh, and the very sight of you is as a gift of mercy unto me. No angel with healing in his wings could prove more welcome, yet I dislike leaving yonder food for the ...

— Prisoners of Chance - The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, - through His Love for a Lady of France • Randall Parrish

... of worldly interests roused suspicions and jealousies, making breaches in our love; and when the Chota Rani came in between us, these breaches seemed as if they would never be mended, but it always turned out that the healing forces at bottom proved more powerful than the ...

— The Home and the World • Rabindranath Tagore

... very highest importance in the healing art, is a work just issued by the venerable Professor Buchanan. We have read the book from cover to cover with unabated attention; and it is replete with ideas, suggestions, and practical hints, and conclusions of eminent value to every practitioner who is himself ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 - Volume 1, Number 1 • Various

... my condition, and seemed greatly shocked at the brutal neglect I had experienced. He told me to be of good courage; that it was not yet too late to arrest the progress of my disease. He commenced his healing operations by administering a copious dose of laudanum, which immediately relieved my pain and threw me into a refreshing sleep. He furnished me with other medicines, ordered me food suitable to my condition, and in ...

— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper

... my sisterling," said he, looking up to the newcomer. "They say you burgher women have ways of healing the sick. Look at her. Think you you ...

— The Dove in the Eagle's Nest • Charlotte M. Yonge

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