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Not salutary or wholesome; unfavorable to health.

Not capable of being healed; incurable; irremediable.

Not sanitary; unhealthy; as, insanitary conditions of drainage.

h; to animate. When Zephirus eek, with his sweete breath, Inspirèd hath in every holt and health The tender crops. Chaucer. Descend, ye Nine, descend and sing, The breathing instruments inspire. Pope.

of medical science which attempts to account philosophically for the various phenomena of health as well as of disease; physiology applied to the practice of medicine. Dunglison.

an abstract notion; especially, a classified notion, as species, genus, whiteness. -- To heal by the first intention (Surg.), to cicatrize, as a wound, without suppuration. -- To heal by the second intention (Surg.), to unite after suppuration.

To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.

Strength; health. [Obs.]

Wanting health; valetudinary. [R.]

s weak and infirm; one who is disabled for active service; especially, one in chronic ill health.

Want of health; infirmity. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse. Heal the inveterate canker of one wound. Shak.

fensive odor and sweetish taste, and analogous to chloroform. It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores.

An herb of the Mint family (Sideritis), supposed to heal sword cuts; also, a species of Galeopsis.

The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal. Mayne.

, adv. -- Joy"less*ness, n. With downcast eyes the joyless victor sat. Dryden. Youth and health and war are joyless to him. Addison. [He] pining for the lass, Is joyless of the grove, and spurns the growing grass. Dryden.

A public hall or room, for the use of visitors at watering places and health resorts in Germany.

Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength.

Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus. Arbuthnot.

Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.