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The state of being healthful.

In a healthy manner.

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

Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm. "A healthless or old age." Jer. Taylor.

The state of being health

Wholesome; salubrious. [R.] "Healthsome air." Shak.

In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency.

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.

The afterbirth or secundines of a beast.

A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons. [Now Low or Humorous] The wisdom of a heap of learned men. Chaucer. A heap of vassals and slaves. Bacon. He had heaps of friends. W.Black.

One who heaps, piles, or amasses.

Lying in heaps. Gay.

To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call. Lay thine ear close to the ground, and list if thou canst hear the tread of travelers. Shak. He had been heard to utter an ominous growl. Macaulay.

imp. & p. p. of Hear.

One who hears; an auditor.

The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; as, my hearing is good. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear. Job xlii. 5.

To listen; to lend the ear; to attend to what is uttered; to give heed; to hear, in order to obey or comply. The Furies hearken, and their snakes uncurl. Dryden. Hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you. Deut. iv. 1.

One who hearkens; a listener.

Rehearsal. [Obs.] Spenser.

Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another. Much of the obloquy that has so long rested on the memory of our great national poet originated in frivolous hearsays of his life and conversation. Prof. Wilson. Hearsay evidence (Law), that species of testimony which consists in a a narration by one perso…