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Not salubrious or healthful; unwholesome; as, an insalubrious air or climate.

Unhealthfulness; unwholesomeness; as, the insalubrity of air, water, or climate. Boyle.

Not salutary or wholesome; unfavorable to health.

Not sanitary; unhealthy; as, insanitary conditions of drainage.

h; to animate. When Zephirus eek, with his sweete breath, Inspirèd hath in every holt and health The tender crops. Chaucer. Descend, ye Nine, descend and sing, The breathing instruments inspire. Pope.

of medical science which attempts to account philosophically for the various phenomena of health as well as of disease; physiology applied to the practice of medicine. Dunglison.

To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.

Strength; health. [Obs.]

Wanting health; valetudinary. [R.]

s weak and infirm; one who is disabled for active service; especially, one in chronic ill health.

Want of health; infirmity. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal. Mayne.

, adv. -- Joy"less*ness, n. With downcast eyes the joyless victor sat. Dryden. Youth and health and war are joyless to him. Addison. [He] pining for the lass, Is joyless of the grove, and spurns the growing grass. Dryden.

A public hall or room, for the use of visitors at watering places and health resorts in Germany.

Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength.

Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus. Arbuthnot.

e Etym: [L. legitima potestas] (Scots Law), perfect, i. e., legal, power; specif., having health requisite to do legal acts. -- Liege widowhood, perfect, i. e., pure, widowhood. [Obs.]

Lifting bridge, a lift bridge. -- Lifting jack. See 2d Jack, 5. -- Lifting machine. See Health lift, under Health. -- Lifting pump. (Mach.) (a) A kind of pump having a bucket, or valved piston, instead of a solid piston, for drawing water and lifting it to a high level. (b) A pump which lifts the water only to the t…

erity; happiness; joy; felicity. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily. Is. lviii. 8.

Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition. [Archaic] I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking. Shak. Their young ones are in good liking. Job. xxxix. 4. On liking, on condition of being pleasing to or suiting; also, on condition of being ple…