Heal vs Feal - What's the difference?
heal | feal |
To hide; conceal; keep secret.
To cover, as for protection.
To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
* Bible, Matthew viii. 8
To become better.
To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
(obsolete) health
(of things) Cosy; clean; neat.
*1847 , Henry Scott Riddell, Poems, songs and miscellaneous pieces :
(of persons) Comfortable; cosy; safe.
* 1887 , Allan Cunningham, Henry Morley, Traditional tales of the English and Scottish peasantry :
Smooth; soft; downy; velvety.
In a feal manner.
(archaic) faithful, loyal
As a verb heal
is to hide; conceal; keep secret or heal can be to make better from a disease, wound, etc; to revive or cure.As a noun heal
is (obsolete) health.As an adjective feal is
faithful.heal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) helen, hilen, from (etyl) . Related to (l), (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l) * (l) (Scotland)Verb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) helen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
- This bandage will heal your cut.
- Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed .
- Bandages allow cuts to heal .
- to heal dissensions
Synonyms
* (make better) cure, make whole * (become better) get better, recoverDerived terms
* healable * healand, Healand * healer * healthNoun
(-)- (Chaucer)
Anagrams
* * English ergative verbs ----feal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fele, .Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l)Adjective
(en-adj)- But if it stands in humble hame The bed, — I'll say this far in't, — Is clean and feel as ony lair King ever lay on — and that is mair Than mony ane could warrant.
- [...] when I care na to accompany ye to the kirkyard hole mysel, and take my word for't, ye'Il lie saftest and fealest on the Buittle side of the kirk; [...]