Obs. Also 5 hoole, 5–6 hole. [f. WHOLE a.]
I. 1. trans. To make whole, heal, cure.
14[?]. Stockholm Med. MS., I. 233, in Anglia, XVIII. 301. Þe cold festre xal be holyd with hete.
c. 1440. Capgrave, Life St. Kath., V. 1952. With whiche oyle of soores alle grevauns Whiche men suffre, it wil be hooled anoon. Ibid. (c. 1450), Life St. Gilbert, xxxiv. 110. Summe wer holed fro certeyn seknesse be þe merites of þis Seynt.
2. intr. To become whole; to recover from sickness; to heal, as a wound.
14[?]. Stockholm Med. MS., I. 241, in Anglia, XVIII. 301. Of cler hony and rye-flour late bake a kake,… And ley’t to þe hole of þe festeryd sor,… And so it schal holyn.
1460–70. Bk. Quinte Essence, 15. Þe oolde feble man schal vse þis deuyn drynk … and wiþinne a fewe dayes he schal so hool þat he schal fele him silf of þe statt and þe strenkþe of xl ȝeer.
1690. W. Walker, Idiomat. Anglo-Lat., 517. The wounds whole not.
II. 3. trans. To make into a whole; to assemble or unite.
1443–9. Pecock, Donet, xvii. (1921), 186. Þese spechis hoolid and maad of þe ij seid maners.
a. 1577. Sir T. Smith, Commw. Eng. (1609), 18. The Captaine wholed a multitude of people gathered … of diuers Nations, and beginneth a Commonwealth after this maner.
