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An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.

distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms. I never could drive a hard bargain. Burke.

hazard of his reputation and life. Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard. Rogers

An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures. Dunglison.

Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition. A mind . . . healthful and so well-proportioned. Macaulay.

Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad. That the spent earth may gather heart again. Dryden.

Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by appearance, condition, or otherwise. It has raised . . . heats in their faces. Addison. The heats smiths take of their…

lace of supreme happiness or great comfort; perfect felicity; bliss; a sublime or exalted condition; as, a heaven of delight. "A heaven of beauty." Shak. "The brightest heaven of invention." Shak. O bed! bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head! Hood.

In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient. Hectic fever (Med.), a fever of irritation and debility, occurring usually at a advanced stage of exhausting disease, as a in pulmonary consumption.

The condition of being high; elevated position. Behold the height of the stars, how high they are! Job xxii. 12.

The condition of the Helots or slaves in Sparta; slavery.

A medicine designed to improve the condition of the blood.

A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds.

Arising from the liver; due to a condition of the liver; as, hepatogenic jaundice.

Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.

The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster.

The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils.

That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy.

the economy, and composed of elements different from those are found in it in its normal condition. Dunglison.

The condition of being heterostyled.