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Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body. Last year we thought him strong and hale. Swift.

Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.

In a healthy manner.

The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.

Exhibiting strength; sound; healthy; firm; not weak; as, a hearty timber.

ts practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy…

Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. [Obs.] So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys.

The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind. 'T is the infirmity of his age. Shak.

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

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

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

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

To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book. He had a healthy color in his cheeks, and his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. Dickens.

Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.

of the virus, of a vesicle or pustule which first enlarges and then breaks down into an unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound exhaustion and usually fatal. Called also charbon, and sometimes, improperly, anthrax.

To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.

Proceeding from disease; morbid; unhealthy. Morbose tumors and excrescences of plants. Ray.

from the blood, matters necessary either for their repair or for the performance of their healthy functions.

els; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperæmia; -- opposed to anæmia.

, of which intense itching is the chief symptom, the eruption scarcely differing from the healthy cuticle in color.