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Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant. His mind was now in a firm and healthy state. Macaulay.

C16H12O6, got from hematoxylin by partial oxidation, and regarded as analogous to the phthaleins.

nheriting or receiving by inheritance. This son shall be legitimate and heritable. Sir M. Hale. Heritable rights (Scots Law), rights of the heir; rights to land or whatever may be intimately connected with land; realty. Jacob (Law Dict.).

Nearest on this side. Sir M. Hale.

Like a home or a home circle. Quiet, cheerful, homish hospital life. E. E. Hale.

h other; one of the bones in the hand of man is the homologue of that in the paddle of a whale.

A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural. Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale. Pope.

A fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as a camel or whale.

Any whale of the genus Megaptera, characterized by a hump or bunch on the back. Several species are known. The most common ones in the North Atlantic are Megaptera longimana of Europe, and M. osphyia of America; that of the California coasts is M. versabilis.

minations and idiotisms, suitable to their native language, unto words newly invented. M. Hale.

Not leviable; incapable of being imposed, or collected. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

To diminish in value. [Obs.] Hales.

g from time immemorial. "Immemorial elms." Tennyson. "Immemorial usage or custom." Sir M. Hale. Time immemorial (Eng. Law.), a time antedating (legal) history, and beyond "legal memory" so called; formerly an indefinite time, but in 1276 this time was fixed by statute as the begining of the reign of Richard I. (1189).…

ary; communded. [Obs.] Those imperate acts, wherein we see the empire of the soul. Sir M. Hale.

e*ness, n. -- Im`per*cep"ti*bly, adv. Their . . . subility and imperceptibleness. Sir M. Hale.

s accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties. Sir M. Hale. I have a fine spread of improvable lands. Addison.

The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity. A thick of incense went up. Ezek. viii. 11.

of those arts, in those parts, would be looked on as the first inchoation of them. Sir M. Hale. It is now in actual progress, from the rudest inchoation to the most elaborate finishing. I. Taylor.

Having no communion or intercourse with each other. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Inconceivable. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.