Meaning

Obsolete form of heal..

Definitions by Sense

1. Obsolete form of heal.
2. (rare, now chiefly dialectal or archaic) To hide, conceal, and keep secret, especially for a secret society (such as the masons).
3. (rare, now especially in the phrase "hele in") To cover or conceal (a seedling, plant, roots, etc).

Example Sentences

… the lion is in most gentleness and nobility, when his neck and shoulders be heled with hair and main.

Men could look up and understand something of the star-Spangled arch of blue, but the reversed arch or crypt beneath was to the eyes a flesh 'heled, concealed, and never revealed,' […]

The second is concerned more especially with the obligation of the Neophyte Grade in which the Candidate is pledged to hele, conceal and never reveal the secret art and hidden mysteries of Masonry.

[…] and for this reason had better be taken up and heled in, in a safe place, where there is no danger from standing water.

At the time of earthing the potatoes by the double mould-plough, turnip seed is sown, and thus "heled;" the turnips arrive at maturity before the potatoes, and are pulled without damage to them.

Take your vines, in a pail with water, or wrapped in a wet cloth, from the place where they were heled-in,* to the holes; […] *On receiving your vines from the nursery, they should be taken out of the box, without delay, and heled-in, which is done as follows: In a dry and well protected situation, a trench is made in the soil […] The plants are then set thickly together in the trench […] and soil taken from [another trench] is thrown into the first, covering the roots carefully,

As soon as received the plants should be unpacked and if they can not be planted at once they should be "heled in" i. e., placed in a trench and thoroughly watered.

Word Forms

• heles
• heling
• heled
• heal
• heel

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