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, 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.

Unsoundness; disease.

Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.

change upon. As might affect the earth with cold heat. Milton. The climate affected their health and spirits. Macaulay.

A walk or a ride in the open air; a short excursion for health's sake.

All health; -- a phrase of salutation or welcome.

Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. Burton.

The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.

mind or closely applying one's self; assiduous effort; close attention; as, to injure the health by application to study. Had his application been equal to his talents, his progress night have been greater. J. Jay.

with the stethoscope (mediate ~), in order to distinguish sounds recognized as a sign of health or of disease.