1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary.
Wholesome thirst and appetite.
Milton.
From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food.
A Smith. 2. Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion, or prosperity; conducive to good; salutary; sound; as,
wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths; wholesome laws.
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life.
Prov. xv. 4.
I can not . . . make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased.
Shak.
A wholesome suspicion began to be entertained.
Sir W. Scott. 3. Sound; healthy. [Obs.] Shak.
— Whole"some*ly, adv. — Whole"some*ness, n.
Whole-souled
(Whole"-souled`) a. Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.
Wholly
(Whol"ly) adv.
1. In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.
Nor wholly overcome, nor wholly yield.
Dryden. 2. To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully.
They employed themselves wholly in domestic life.
Addison. Whom
(Whom) pron. [OE. wham, AS. dative hwam, hwm. See Who.] The objective case of who.
See Who.
In Old English, whom was also commonly used as a dative. Cf. Him.
And every grass that groweth upon root
She shall eke know, and whom it will do boot.
Chaucer. Whomsoever
(Whom`so*ev"er) pron. The objective of whosoever. See Whosoever.
The Most High ruleth in the kingdow of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Dan. iv. 17. Whoobub
(Whoo"bub) n. Hubbub. [Obs.] Shak.
Whoop
(Whoop) n. [See Hoopoe.] (Zoöl.) The hoopoe.
Whoop
(Whoop), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Whooped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Whooping.] [OE. houpen. See
Hoop, v. i.]
1. To utter a whoop, or loud cry, as eagerness, enthusiasm, or enjoyment; to cry out; to shout; to halloo; to
utter a war whoop; to hoot, as an owl.
Each whooping with a merry shout.
Wordsworth.
When naught was heard but now and then the howl
Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl.
W. Browne. 2. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.