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Producing prosperity or happiness; blessed. [Obs.] Chaucer.

njoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness. How to study for the people's welfare. Shak. In whose deep eyes Men read the welfare of the times to come. Emerson.

Faring well; prosperous; thriving. [Obs.] "A welfaring person." Chaucer.

The state or condition of being well; welfare; happiness; prosperity; as, virtue is essential to the well-being of men or of society.

Prosperous; well. [Obs.] Wyclif. -- Wel"some*ly, adv. Wyclif.

Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion, or prosperity; conducive to good; salutary; sound; as, wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths; wholesome laws. A wholesome tongue is a tree of life. Prov. xv. 4. I can not . . . make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased. Shak.…

t wish Any companion in the world but you. Shak. I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper. 3. John 2.

et know not of. Shak. In every work that he began . . . he did it with all his heart, and prospered. 2 Chron. xxxi. 21.

ce, figuratively, the point of culmination; the greatest height; the height of success or prosperity. I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star. Shak. This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. Mrs. Barbauld. It was during those civil troubles . . . this as…