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Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray.

To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind. An old man, broken with the storms of state. Shak.

To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott.

A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.

A brief statement of facts respecting some passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority for the information of the public.

cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast. He frothed his bumpers to the brim. Tennyson.

Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long. Tatler. -- Bux"om*ly, adv.…

A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).

An unhealthy state of the voice.

The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength and gracefulness; light gymnastics.

n it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.

halk mixture, a preparation of chalk, cinnamon, and sugar in gum water, much used in diarrheal affection, esp. of infants. -- Chalk period. (Geol.) See Cretaceous period, under Cretaceous. -- Chalk pit, a pit in which chalk is dug. -- Drawing chalk. See Crayon, n., 1. -- French chalk, steatite or soapstone, a soft…

A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians.

ss, education, religious culture, and public institutions. The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers. Wordsworth. Sisters of Charity (R. C. Ch.), a sisterhood of religious women engaged in works of mercy, esp. in nursing the sick; -- a popular designation. There are v…

rocess of forming an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.

A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system was founded by Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, of Concord, N. H., in 1866, and bases…

Tending to promote the formation of a cicatrix; good for healing of a wound.

he pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of continuity and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.

A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix.

To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh. Wiseman.