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, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health. Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. Matt. viii. 8.

Capable of being healed.

A common herb of the Mint family (Brunela vulgaris), destitute of active properties, but anciently thought a panacea.

A heddle. Ure.

One who, or that which, heals.

Tending or serving to heal; healing. [Obs.] Ecclus. xv. 3.

Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words. Here healing dews and balms abound. Keble.

So as to heal or cure.

, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain. There is no health in us. Book of Common Prayer. Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not be sported with without loss, or regained by courage. Buckminster.

Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.

In health; wholesomely.

The state of being healthful.

In a healthy manner.

The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.

Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm. "A healthless or old age." Jer. Taylor.

The state of being health

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.

A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants.