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heling, healing, vbl. n. Now dial.
Also 6- helling.
[f. hele v.1 and v.2 + -ing1.]
1. The action of covering; covering up, concealing; the covering in of a house, roofing with slate, tiles, or the like.
a1200Lofsung in Cott. Hom. 207 Bi his spotlunge and bufettunge and his heliunge. a1225Ancr. R. 150 Þe heliunge is þe god dedes lif, & halt hit ine strencðe. 1357Lay Folks Catech. 222 All wrangwise takyng..hiding or helyng of othir men godes. 1451Churchw. Acc. Yatton (1890) 94 For helyng of Synt Jamys ys Chapell. 1554Ibid. 166 The tyler for y⊇ hellyng of y⊇ Church. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 6 Fraudfull heiling and concealing of treasure. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 237 Healing with Lead or flat Stone is not to be approved of, by reason of its weight. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 275 For Ripping, and Healing again..Bricklayers reckon 3s. 6d. per Square.
2. concr. A covering; a cover, roofing.
13..K. Alis. 6188 Above, and byneothe, is heore heolyng. 1375Barbour Bruce v. 11 The heling of thar hevede That vikkit vyntir had thame revede. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 283 Sche hidde hir armes and hir þyȝhes wiþ dyuers helynges. Ibid. III. 273 Þe helynge [of the palace] liche to þe firmament. 1498Will of Whytmor (Somerset Ho.), My portouse wt a rede helyng. 1543Will of J. Mors (Ibid.), Fetherbedde, a bolster..twoo blankettes a Helyng a matres. 1674Ray N. C. Words 24 A Bed-Healing (Derb.), a coverlet: it is also called absolutely a Hylling in many places. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 169 Of the weight of this sort of Healing. 1838A. E. Bray Trad. Devonsh. I. 306 Slaters with us..are called helliers and the slate roof of a house is termed the helling. 1853N. & Q. 1st Ser. VIII. 44/2 Another Devonianism. The Cover of a book is called its healing.
†b. Clothing. Obs.
1382in Wyclif's Sel. Wks. III. 519 Ynowȝ for liflode and heling. c1400Apol. Loll. 43 Fode & heling hauing, wiþ hem I schal be content.
3. Comb., as heling-coster, heling-net, heling-stone.
1447E.E. Wills (1882) 131 All my..helyng Costurs of hallys. 1558–9Act 1 Eliz. c. 17 §1 No person..shall use any Heling Nett or Trymle Bote. 1602Carew Cornwall 6 b, For covering of houses there are three sorts of Slate, which from that use take the name of Healing-stones. |