heal-all
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of heal-all
First recorded in 1570–80
Example Sentences
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Have you not a medicine that will cure everything, a real heal-all, a veritable pain-killer?
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren
It was the Saxon who gave to the heal-all of the Celts the pretty name of mistletoe, or mistletan,—meaning a shoot or tine of a tree.
From Yule-Tide in Many Lands by L. J. (Lewis Jesse) Bridgman
Clysters he prated on; electuaries; troches; the weed that the Gael of him called slanlus or "heal-all;" of unguents loathsomely compounded, but at greatest length and with fullest rapture of his vile phlebotomy.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
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.
From Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by David Christie Murray
From April to July the purple blossoms of the self-heal, or heal-all, may be found in the borders of woods or in open grounds.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
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