heal-all

American  

[heel-awl] / ˈhilˌɔl /

noun

1. the selfheal, Prunella vulgaris.

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heal-all British  

noun

1. another name for selfheal

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Etymology

Origin of heal-all

First recorded in 1570–80

Example Sentences

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

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 Munro, Neil

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)

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