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GRAIN, weight (law) and wholesome (iou)


GRAIN, weight (law)


GRAIN, weight. The twenty-fourth part of a pennyweight. 2. For scientific purposes the grain only is used, and sets of weights 2. For scientific purposes the grain only is used, and sets of weights are constructed in decimal progression, from 10,000 grains downward to one are constructed in decimal progression, from 10,000 grains downward to one hundredth of a grain. hundredth of a grain.

wholesome (iou)



wholesome adjective & noun. ME.
[from WHOLE adjective + -SOME1; prob. already in Old English (cf. Old High German heilsam, Old Norse heilsamr). Cf. HALESOME.]
A. adjective.
Conducive to General well-being; promoting mental or moral Health; beneficial; prudent, safe. ME.
Steele Bestow a little of your wholesome Advice upon our Coachmen. Blitz The kind of provincial trad jazz that wholesome Hobbies are built upon.
Promoting physical Health; salubrious. Formerly also, curative, medicinal. LME.
Tolkien The air is wholesome there because of the outlets through fissures in the rock.
Having a sound (physical or moral) constitution; healthy. E16.
T. Berger The most vicious types..would today qualify as the most wholesome of citizens.
Nautical. (Of a ship) not liable to roll; (of a sea) not causing ships to roll. Now rare. E17.
b. noun. In pl. Wholesome things. rare. M18.
wholesomely adverb ME.
wholesomeness noun ME.