Healing \Heal"ing\, a.
   Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a
   healing salve; healing words.
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         Here healing dews and balms abound.      --Keble.
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	Heal \Heal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Healed (h[=e]ld); p. pr. &
   vb. n. Healing.] [OE. helen, h[ae]len, AS. h[=ae]lan, fr.
   h[=a]l hale, sound, whole; akin to OS. h[=e]lian, D. heelen,
   G. heilen, Goth. hailjan. See Whole.]
   1. To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease,
      wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or
      health.
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            Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
                                                  --Matt. viii.
                                                  8.
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   2. To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; --
      said of a disease or a wound.
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            I will heal their backsliding.        --Hos. xiv. 4.
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   3. To restore to original purity or integrity.
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            Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters. --2
                                                  Kings ii. 21.
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   4. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to
      free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.
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	healing
    adj 1: tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of
           herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial
           surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh
           air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets" [syn:
           curative, healing(p), alterative, remedial,
           sanative, therapeutic]
    n 1: the natural process by which the body repairs itself

	

	24 Moby Thesaurus words for "healing":
   adjuvant, alterative, analeptic, corrective, curative, cure,
   curing, divine healing, faith healing, iatric, medicative,
   medicinal, nonmedical therapy, remedial, remedy, restorative,
   sanative, sanatory, theotherapy, therapeutic, therapy, theriac,
   vulnerary, wholesome