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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 medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.

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

The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.

Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray.

An unhealthy state of the voice.

n it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.

rocess of forming an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.

Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy. "Lothair is clean." F. Harrison.

sary sympathy with every other, and all together form, by their harmonious onspiration, a healthy whole. Sir W. Hamilton.

To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.

To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.

alternate ebb and flood of the tide; often used figuratively. This alternation between unhealthy activity and depression, this ebb and flow of the industrial. A. T. Hadley.

A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics.

he matter forming the false membranes which sometimes result from acute inflammation in a healthy person. Dunglison.

Healthy nutrition; soundless as regards the nutritive functions.

Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise ob horseback. The wise for cure on exercise depend. Dryden.

To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne.

rubbing the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action.

Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).