Heal \Heal\ (h[=e]l), v. i. To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; -- sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over.
Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves. --Shak.
Heal \Heal\ (h[=e]l), v. t. [See {Hele}.] To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like. [Obs.]
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.
Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. --Matt. viii. 8.
2. To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound.
I will heal their backsliding. --Hos. xiv. 4.
3. To restore to original purity or integrity.
Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters. --2 Kings ii. 21.
4. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.
Heal \Heal\, n. [AS. h[=ae]lu, h[=ae]l. See {Heal}, v. t.] Health. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Jesse Jackson, reaching out to Jewish primary voters in New York, said Friday he was trying to "heal relationships" that frayed during his 1984 presidential campaign.
"I don't suppose it will ever heal," said amateur historian Jack Foster.
A trustees' committee and the director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art are seeking to heal relations with the art community by expressing regret for canceling a planned exhibit that included sexually provocative photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
"We're gathering to ask God to heal our country and heal our church," said the Rev. John Gimenez, pastor of Rock Church in Virginia Beach, Va., and chairman of the rally's national steering committee.
"We're gathering to ask God to heal our country and heal our church," said the Rev. John Gimenez, pastor of Rock Church in Virginia Beach, Va., and chairman of the rally's national steering committee.
A victory today will not be enough to restore Mr Major's shattered authority. It may in the end prove impossible to repair. Nor will the ultimate sanction heal the deep schism opened up by more than a year of civil war over Europe.
American citizens might decide to heal the illnesses, not just the wounds.
"It's going to take a long time for this community to ever heal.
Prosecutors contended it was murder, saying the girl died after her parents ignored pleas to take her to a doctor and relied instead on prayer to heal her untreated diabetes.
"I feel scarred by this case and I need to heal," Buckey said. He added he now feels in control of his life. "I no longer have 12 jurors deciding my fate.
Zimbabwean n'angas in feather headdresses claim they can heal ailments ranging from sprains to cancer and mental disorders by throwing bones, chanting incantations and stirring mixtures of herbs and animal parts.
Mr. Bush yesterday endorsed "a time of healing," but in this case only retribution can truly heal. If no senator or staffer pays any price, it will all happen again.
We need to approach the matter from the point of trying to heal differences rather than exacerbate them," the judge said.
They won't swear, but they will affirm." Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze said today he was "full of good expectations and great hopes" as he arrived to discuss a summit to heal the 30-year-old China-Soviet breach.
The murder was a shock for a city trying to heal from the wounds of the racial killing in another predominantly white neighborhood, Howard Beach, as well as allegations of police attacks on blacks and other racially charged incidents in the late 1980s.
Formal, deliberate and understated, he campaigned as the candidate who could heal New York's social divisions, schisms that Koch often was accused of worsening.
"If what Marcos wants to convey to (Mrs. Aquino) and the nation will heal the wounds that have been fragmenting our people and finally lead to national reconciliation, then something good can come out of this trip," Laurel said.
"My friends ask me, `Did your Dad go to Saudi Arabia?"' said Felicia, 8. "And I say, `My Dad didn't go, my Mom did."' Mrs. Dean's deployment helped Dean heal a strained relationship with his oldest daughter who now lives in Georgia.
"There would be a very large effort on both sides of the aisle, I think, to have a period of bipartisanship if you had Foley as speaker, and to try to heal some of the wounds," Gingrich said.
I only wish there were 40 hours in a day." In a way, the effort is helping heal some old hurts left by the Vietnam War, she said.
Democrat Walter Fauntroy announced Saturday he will run for mayor of the nation's capital, saying he hoped to "heal the hurt" left by incumbent Marion Barry's indictment on drug and perjury charges.
But she adds, "It causes scars that never heal." Barnett said it intends to rename and operate the company as a separate affiliate and doesn't plan a significant reduction in the current staff of nearly 500 people.
"I was willing to take full responsibility and raise it and take care of it; there's nothing for me to do now but let the wounds heal," says Mr. Conn, explaining that he is continuing the court fight in order to seek a precedent.
And whatever I can do to help you heal, I'm willing to do it.
Should an acceptable retreat be found from Afghanistan and the conflict between pro- and anti-Communist forces be left to the Afghans, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev would heal one of his nation's most visible foreign policy sores.
"It seems like you're the type of person who can come in here and heal any wounds that might exist, and build that consensus," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
Belfast church leaders hope this unprecedented symbolic act will help heal the pervasive despair, grief and suspicion here.
What astonishes the doctors is "these fetuses heal without a scar," says the surgeon, Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco.
Blacks and Jews, who marched shoulder to shoulder during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, have often feuded since, but leaders of both groups are hoping an institute founded here will help heal the rift.
Ms. Williamson, one of 150 members of the Oak Grove Church of God, told Tangipahoa Parish sheriff's deputies at the time of her arrest that she believed prayer would heal the child.