Chapter Headache to Healthy of H by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

1. The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, 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.

2. A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast. "Come, love and health to all." Shak.

Bill of health. See under Bill. — Health lift, a machine for exercise, so arranged that a person lifts an increasing weight, or moves a spring of increasing tension, in such a manner that most of the muscles of the body are brought into gradual action; — also called lifting machine. — Health officer, one charged with the enforcement of the sanitary laws of a port or other place. — To drink a health. See under Drink.

Healthful
(Health"ful) a.

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

2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet.

The healthful Spirit of thy grace.

Book of Common Prayer.

3. Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition.

A mind . . . healthful and so well- proportioned.

Macaulay.

4. Well-disposed; favorable. [R.]

Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests.

Shak.

Healthfully
(Health"ful*ly), adv. In health; wholesomely.

Healthfulness
(Health"ful*ness), n. The state of being healthful.

Healthily
(Health"i*ly) adv. In a healthy manner.

Healthiness
(Health"i*ness), n. The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.

Healthless
(Health"less), a.

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

2. Not conducive to health; unwholesome. [R.]

Healthlessness
(Health"less*ness), n. The state of being healthless.

Healthsome
(Health"some) a. Wholesome; salubrious. [R.] "Healthsome air." Shak.

Healthward
(Health"ward) a. & adv. In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency.

Healthy
(Health"y) a. [Compar. Healthier (-i*er); superl. Healthiest.]