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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quhole, adj. (adv.) and n. Also: quhol, whol(e, qhole, quole; quholl(e, quoll, wholl(e, uholl; whoill. [e.m.E. and late ME wholle (1420), whole (a1500), whoale (1581), varr. of hole etc., Hole adj.] Whole, in various usual senses and applications.
a. adj. = Hale adj. 1 to 7.(1) 1629 Black Orkn. & Shetl. Folklore 76.
And cust his seiknes upoun Michaell … his meir quhilk deit as the said Thomas grew quholl Ib. 78. 1629 Orkney Witch Trial in County Folk Lore iii (1903) 103.
Quha being quholl then deit within thrie dayes be your witchcraft 1638 Henderson Serm. 222.(2) a1598 Ferg. Prov. MS No. 824.
It is good sleeping in a whol skin(3) 1571 Bann. Trans. 127.
Thrie hacquebutis of fovnd whole and ane brocken Ib. 128.
Of bisquite, xi whole hogheidis, … of Balcone, four whoill puncheones a1650 Row 294.
Read this by interpunctions it paints out wicked bishops: read it by wholl lynes it descrybes Paulls bishops 1674 Edinb. B. Rec. X 171. 1679 Fawside Coal Compt 41.
Panwood 25 March all the three are uholl(4) c1590 Fowler I 241/36.
Resolud with quhole in[tent](5) 1612 Maxwell Mem. II 58.
And thocht al cannot be pleasit that a qhole state be not discontented c1616 Hume Orthog. 21.
Quhy wer it not better to supply a k in the place of it then to hedge it in with a whol idle syllab a1650 Row 330. 1653 Lamont Diary 51.
June, for sesse and half coalle and candell … , July, for sesse and wholle coalle and candell 1667 Ib. 198.(6) 1562 Montgomery Mem. II 192.
And the quhole bodie of the Protestants within this realme c1563 Reg. Panmure I cxliv.
The donion or cheif hows of the quhole castel a1578 Pitsc. I 201/24. 1587 Warrender P. (S.H.S.) II 39.
That the answer wold grieve his majesty and the quhole cuntrey 1592 James VI in Ellis Orig. Lett. 2 Ser. III 163.
To send me that quhole summe of annuitie 1615 Denmylne MSS in Highland P. III 268.
Both for myself and my quholl kin 1644–5 Black Bk. Taymouth 101. 1682 Dunferm. Hammermen 17.
The wholl craft … heath ordered that [etc.](7) 1570 Bann. Memor. 23.
How this estate is dividit in factiones, not only … the nobilitie but … the whole leiges 1576 in Id. Trans. 486.
The whole [Memor. 335, haile] cofferis, boxis, or lettronis that the erle … had ony geir in keping in 1604–8 Dunlop P. II 4.
The quhole bounds and grounds heirabout 1611 Reg. Panmure I xxix (see Quhel adj.). 1626 Aberd. Council Lett. I 249.
Quholle 1638 Rec. Kirk Scotl. 49.
Concludit by the quole estaits in publick 1657 Balfour Ann. I 90.
Quhol 1661 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 198.
That the whole bells be rung the haill day(8) 1616 Prot. Bk. R. Broun 201.
Resigned all and whole the aforesaid tenement 1661 Buccleuch Mun. II 312.
Our vniversall legatoris of all and quholl our saidis guidis, geir [etc.] 1680 Soc. Ant. XLV 233.
All the whole ministers are content to be ordered by the enemies of Christ
b. adv. = Hale adj. 8.a1500 Sir Eger 1962.
Work all whole at my device c1590 Fowler I 355/46.
Vnhappie is the wight to loue His harte dothe wholl derect 1716 F. F. MacKay MacNeill of Carskey's Estate Journal (1955) 49.
Bought … ane tuo year old bull quhich he is to lybb on his own hazard and to deliver itt me whole libed
c. noun. = Hale n.31562 Montgomery Mem. II 192.
So that quhatsumever schall hurt … any of our bodies sall be reputed done to the quhole 1623 Aberd. Council Lett. I 210.
Thair will grit incommoditie thairby enschew to the quhole of merchantis within this realme 1650 in Balfour Ann. IV 129.
Sectaries quho … are in a way hauing so considerable a pairt of it [sc. Scotland] wnder footte alredey to reduce the quoll to a prouince
