whole cloth noun

Cloth in its full manufactured size (cut out of whole cloth (N Am inf) wholly fabricated, utterly false)

wholeˈ-coloured adjective

All of one colour

wholeˈfood noun

Food, unprocessed or processed as little as possible, produced without any artificial fertilizers or pesticides, etc

wholeˈ-footˈed adjective (informal)

Unreserved

wholeˈgrain adjective

(of bread, flour, etc) made from the complete grain, with no parts discarded during manufacture

wholeˈheartˈed adjective

Hearty, generous, zealous and sincere

wholeˈheartˈedly adverb

wholeˈ-heartˈedness noun

wholeˈ-hog adjective (slang)

Out-and-out, complete

wholeˈ-hoggˈer noun

Someone who is inclined to go the whole hog

wholeˈ-hoofed adjective

Having an undivided hoof

wholeˈ-length adjective

1. Giving the whole figure
2. Full-length

noun

A portrait or statue showing the whole figure

whole-life insurance noun

A life-insurance policy on which premiums are payable up to the death of the insured person

wholeˈmeal noun

Meal made from entire grains of wheat (also adjective)

whole milk noun

Milk from which nothing has been extracted, as distinct from skimmed or semi-skimmed milk

whole note noun (N American)

A semibreve

whole number noun

A unit, or a number composed of units, an integral number

whole-plate see under plate

wholeˈsale noun

Sale of goods, usu by the whole piece or large quantity, to a retailer

adjective

1. Buying and selling, or concerned with buying and selling, thus
2. Extensive and indiscriminate

adverb

1. By wholesale
2. Extensively and indiscriminately

transitive verb

To sell by wholesale

wholeˈsaler noun

Someone who sells by wholesale

wholeˈ-skinned adjective

1. Unhurt
2. Safe in reputation

wholeˈ-souledˈ adjective

Wholehearted

whole step noun (US)

A whole tone

wholeˈstitch noun (lace-making)

A weaving stitch used to fill in a pattern, cloth stitch

whole tone noun (music)

An interval of two semitones

wholeˈ-tone scale noun (music)

Either of two scales produced by beginning on one of any two notes a chromatic semitone apart and ascending or descending in whole tones for an octave

wholeˈwheat adjective

Wholemeal

whollˈy-owned adjective

Describing a company all of whose shares are owned by another company

as a whole

1. In general
2. Taken as a complete group, etc rather than as individuals

go the whole hog

1. To do what one is doing thoroughly or completely
2. To commit oneself to anything unreservedly

on or upon the whole

1. Generally speaking
2. All things considered

out of whole cloth see whole cloth above.

with whole skin

Safe, unscathed