Definition of "halesome" [halesome]

• Wholesome (adjective)
• Healthy (adjective)

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• "Whether they are stirred in with a wooden spoon or, as Mitchell advises, with a spurtle or a gruel-tree Shetland usage is probably optional, but the addition of cream or milk – never sugar – completes a winter experience that can only be described as truly halesome."
• ""They're fine halesome food – they're grand food, parritch," he pronounces to his nephew David."
• "The halesome parritch, [324-33] chief o 'Scotia's food:"