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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.

Lame in the hip. [R.] Gower.

A salt supposed to be formed by a hydracid and a base.

The quality of being unalterable or unchangeable; permanence.

Not alterable; incapable of being altered or changed; unalterable. -- In*al"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- In*al"ter*a*bly, adv.

Joviality. [R.] Barrow.

See Cobalt.

A kind of halter usually made of raw hide.

or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty, love, etc. He had such loyalty to the king as the law required. Clarendon. Not withstanding all the subtle bait With which those Amazons his love still craved, To his one love his loyalty he saved. Spenser.

Pertaining to, or designating, certain compounds of cobalt having a yellow color. Cf. Cobaltic. Luteocobaltic chloride (Chem.), a brilliant reddish yellow crystalline compound, Co2Cl6(NH3)12, obtained by the action of ammonium chloride on an ammoniacal solution of cobaltic chloride.

Relating to, containing, or made with, malt. Malt liquor, an alcoholic liquor, as beer, ale, porter, etc., prepared by fermenting an infusion of malt. -- Malt dust, fine particles of malt, or of the grain used in making malt; -used as a fertilizer. " Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the…

Ill will; malice. [Obs.] Rom. of R. Spenser.

Of or pertaining to Malta or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor.

Of or pertaining to the political economist, the Rev. T. R. Malthus, or conforming to his views; as, Malthusian theories.

The system of Malthusian doctrines relating to population.

The fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase; also, a name given to various medicinal preparations made from or containing malt.

The process of making, or of becoming malt.