heal-all
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of heal-all
First recorded in 1570–80
Example Sentences
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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 Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
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 Maclaren, Alexander
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 Murray, David Christie
What had that flower to do with being white, The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
From American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany by Various
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 Bridgman, L. J. (Lewis Jesse)
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