heal-all
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of heal-all
First recorded in 1570–80
Example Sentences
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When they learned the “white heal-all” was usually blue, they asked to listen again.
From Washington Post
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 Project Gutenberg
“That girl’s a trump–the girl with eyes the color of the little ‘heal-all’, that blue flower we pick up here in May!
From Project Gutenberg
What had that flower to do with being white, The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
From Project Gutenberg
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, On a white heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth— Assorted characters of death and blight Mixed ready to begin the morning right, Like the ingredients of a witches' broth— A snow-drop spider, a flower like froth, And dead wings carried like a paper kite.
From Project Gutenberg
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