n. A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_; full of the god, inspired; &unr_; in + &unr_; god. ] Divinely inspired; wrought up to enthusiasm. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to gonorrhea; as, gonorrheal rheumatism. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Hele. ] To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Healed p. pr. & vb. n. Healing. ] [ OE. helen, hælen, AS. h&aemacr_;lan, fr. hāl hale, sound, whole; akin to OS. hēlian, D. heelen, G. heilen, Goth. hailjan. See Whole. ] 1. To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health. [ 1913 Webster ]

Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. Matt. viii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will heal their backsliding. Hos. xiv. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To restore to original purity or integrity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters. 2 Kings ii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; -- sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. h&aemacr_;lu, h&aemacr_;l. See Heal, v. t. ] Health. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being healed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A common herb of the Mint family (Brunella vulgaris), destitute of active properties, but anciently thought to be a panacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ CF. Heddle. ] A heddle. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, heals. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending or serving to heal; healing. [ Obs. ] Ecclus. xv. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here healing dews and balms abound. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to heal or cure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. helthe, AS. h&aemacr_;lþ, fr. hāl hale, sound, whole. See Whole. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no health in us. Book of Common Prayer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not be sported with without loss, or regained by courage. Buckminster. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast. “Come, love and health to all.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet. [ 1913 Webster ]

The healthful Spirit of thy grace. Book of Common Prayer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mind . . . healthful and so well-proportioned. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Well-disposed; favorable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In health; wholesomely. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being healthful. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a healthy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Without health, whether of body or mind; infirm. “A healthless or old age.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not conducive to health; unwholesome. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being healthless. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wholesome; salubrious. [ R. ] “Healthsome air.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & adv. In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Healthier superl. Healthiest. ] 1. Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy child; a healthy plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

His mind was now in a firm and healthy state. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.

Syn. -- Vigorous; sound; hale; salubrious; healthful; wholesome; salutary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Larynx + tracheal. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to both larynx and trachea; as, the laryngotracheal cartilage in the frog. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Same as Bear's-foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Surrounding the tracheæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A blue-flowered labiate plant (Brunella vulgaris); the healall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the power or property of healing itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Sheeling. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To put under a sheal or shelter. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Shell. ] To take the husks or pods off from; to shell; to empty of its contents, as a husk or a pod. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

That's a shealed peascod. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shell or pod. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The outer husk, pod, or shell, as of oats, pease, etc.; sheal; shell. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Sheeling. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf.F. tracheal. ] Of or pertaining to the trachea; like a trachea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. un- not + heal health. ] Misfortune; calamity; sickness. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To uncover. See Unhele. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Unsoundness; disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

See drainable.
See dramatic.
See drinkable.
See durable.
See duteous.
See dutiful.
See earnest.
See eatable.
See ecclesiastical.
See edible.
See elaborate.
See elective.
See elusive.
See emotional.
See emphatic. See employable.
See employable.
See endurable.
See -English.
See entire.
See enviable.
See envious.
See episcopal.
See equable.
See errable.
See escapable.
See evangelical.
See eventful.
See evident.
See exact.
See examinable.
See exceptionable.
See exclusive.
See exemplary.
See exempt.
See exhaustible.
See existent.
See expectable.
See expectant.
See explainable.
See express.
See expressible.
See expugnable.
See extinct.
See factious.
See fadable.
See fain.
See familiar.
See famous.
See fashionable.
See fast.
See fatherly.
See fathomable.
See faulty.
See fearful.
See feasible.
See felicitous.
See felt.
See feminine.
See fermentable.
See festival.
See fine.
See fleshy.
See fluent.
See forcible.
See fordable.
See foreknowable.
See foreseeable.
See forgetful.
See forgivable.
See formal.
See framable.
See fraternal.
See friable.
See frightful.
See frustrable.
See full.
See gainable.
See gainful.
See gallant.
See genial.
See genteel.
See gentle.
See gentlemanlike.
See gentlemanly.
See geometrical.
See ghostly.
See glad.
See godlike.
See good.
See goodly.
See gorgeous.
See grammatical.
See grave.
See guidable.
See guilty.
See habile.
See habitable.
See hale.
See handy.
See hardy.
See harmful.
See hasty.
See hazardous.
See healable.
See healthful.
See healthy.
See heavenly.
See heedful.
See helpful.
See heritable.
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n. [ OE. whele, AS. hwele putrefaction, hwelian to putrefy. ] A pustule; a whelk. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Wale. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A more or less elongated mark raised by a stroke; also, a similar mark made by any cause; a weal; a wale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically (Med.), a flat, burning or itching eminence on the skin, such as is produced by a mosquito bite, or in urticaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cornish hwel. ] (Mining) A mine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The harvest mite; -- so called from the wheals, caused by its bite. [ 1913 Webster ]