Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant supposed to possess great healing virtues, especially Brunella vulgaris, more commonly called
self-heal .
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- noun small,
herbaceous European plant with blue-violet flowers; Prunella vulgaris.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And anyway, it was better than pushing his mystic heal-all and bowel remedy back in Ireland, wandering from village to village, putting on his wizard act.
Vampire a Go-Go Victor Gischler 2009
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And anyway, it was better than pushing his mystic heal-all and bowel remedy back in Ireland, wandering from village to village, putting on his wizard act.
Vampire a Go-Go Victor Gischler 2009
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And anyway, it was better than pushing his mystic heal-all and bowel remedy back in Ireland, wandering from village to village, putting on his wizard act.
Vampire a Go-Go Victor Gischler 2009
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And anyway, it was better than pushing his mystic heal-all and bowel remedy back in Ireland, wandering from village to village, putting on his wizard act.
Vampire a Go-Go Victor Gischler 2009
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As she went she picked a bouquet of wild-flowers — whatever caught her eye — fleabane, angelica, tickseed, heal-all.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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The state of the clinic was debated during this afternoon's session of the legislature, when MPLs heard that the three nurses who were supposed to have been on duty handed out a headache tablet as a heal-all and wrapped miscarried babies in plastic and handed the corpses back to the still-bleeding mothers.
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As she went she picked a bouquet of wild-flowers -- whatever caught her eye -- fleabane, angelica, tickseed, heal-all.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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They were not as red as they might have been, thanks to an ointment of heal-all taken from the Macura woman.
The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993
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He was fascinated by the idea of a cure where he might be sole master, not checked by rectorial ridicule when he wished to establish night schools or clothing clubs, penny savings banks, or any other of the schemes in vogue for the good of the poor; thinking too, not unwisely, that the best heal-all for his sorrow was to be found in change of scene and more arduous work together.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various
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He told fortunes by the palm and by the cards, and was the sole proprietor and vendor of a noted heal-all salve of magic properties.
Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray David Christie Murray
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