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

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)

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

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

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

What had that flower to do with being white, The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?

From American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany by Various