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promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary. Wholesome thirst and appetite. Milton. From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food. A Smith.

Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like. "Our wide expositors." Milton. It is far wide that the people have such judgments. Latimer. How wide is all this long pretense ! Herbert.

go," describes a future event as a fact only. To emphasize will denotes (according to the tone or context) certain futurity or fixed determination.

wind thread on a spool or into a ball. Whether to wind The woodbine round this arbor. Milton.

pression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation. Blistered be thy tongue for such a wish. Shak.

Power more than natural; irresistible influence. He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue. Shak.

mankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson.

omething new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well understood; surprise; astonishment; admiration; amazement. They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him. Acts iii. 10. Wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance. Johnson.

Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled. Wool of bat and tongue of dog. Shak.

. Tyndale (Acts xxviii. 3, 4). 'T is slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile. Shak. When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm, His mouth he opened and displayed his tusks. Longfellow.

t (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus.…

An Egyptian fork-tongued lizard, about four feet long when full grown.

ence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God. "God with idols in their worship joined." Milton. The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship. Tillotson.

ritten; a scribe; a clerk. They [came] that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1.

e neck around in different directions. Called also cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird, and writheneck.

a deep yellow color; yellowroot. The bark is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic.

g vessel used only for pleasure trips, racing, etc. Yacht measurement. See the Note under Tonnage, 4.

er. Infernal ghosts and hellish furies round Environed thee; some howled, some yelled. Milton.

eous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow.

Eagerly; briskly; quickly. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. My hands and my tongue go so yerne. Chaucer.