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Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. Mark i. 30. Behold them that are sick with famine. Jer. xiv. 18.

A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more o…

ber of an organized community; sociology. It concerns itself with questions of the public health, education, labor, punishment of crime, reformation of criminals, and the like. -- Social whale (Zoöl.), the blackfish. -- The social evil, prostitution.

A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health.

Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; -- said of body or mind; as, a sound body; a sound constitution; a sound understanding.

dency to activity of muscular tissue, including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigor and refreshment.

ut economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate. The crime of squandering health is equal to the folly. Rambler.

Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest; especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tabl…

g ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health.

n to find or retain; as, to be sure of game; to be sure of success; to be sure of life or health.

Preserving health; prophylactic. [Obs.]

That department of medicine which relates to the preservation of health; prophylaxis. [Obs.]

Ill health due to tænia, or tapeworms.

A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.

r passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Franklin.

r T. Browne. Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it. I. Watts.

name from the story that thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London. [Eng.]

To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.

That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.

The removal of tissues from a healthy part, and the insertion of them in another place where there is a lesion; as, the transplantation of tissues in autoplasty. 3. (Surg.)