{ ‖ ‖ } n. [ althaea, Gr. &unr_;. ] (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks. (b) An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) Asparagine. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Icel. (modern) alping, earlier alpingi; allr all + ping assembly. See All, and Thing. ] The national assembly or parliament of Iceland. See Thing, n., 8. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

conj. Although. [ Reformed spelling ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Alt + horn. ] (Mus.) An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove. [ 1913 Webster ]

conj. [ All + though; OE. al thagh. ] Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though. [ 1913 Webster ]

Although all shall be offended, yet will not I. Mark xiv. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Although, Though. Although, which originally was perhaps more emphatic than though, is now interchangeable with it in the sense given above. Euphonic consideration determines the choice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Common + wealth well-being. ] 1. A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws. [ 1913 Webster ]

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This term is applied to governments which are considered as free or popular, but rarely, or improperly, to an absolute government. The word signifies, strictly, the common well-being or happiness; and hence, a form of government in which the general welfare is regarded rather than the welfare of any class. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The whole body of people in a state; the public. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eng. Hist.) Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659.

Syn. -- State; realm; republic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Share dealt. [ Obs. ] [ 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 ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. ma`lqa. ] 1. A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mortar. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. Thomas Robert Malthus, an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834).
Syn. -- Thomas Malthus, Thomas Robert Malthus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to the political economist, the Rev. T. R. Malthus, or conforming to his views; as, Malthusian theories. See Malthus. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Malthus held that population tends to increase faster than its means of subsistence can be made to do, and hence that the lower classes must necessarily suffer more or less from lack of food, unless an increase of population be checked by prudential restraint or otherwise. The steadily increasing capacity of world economic systems and food production has proven this theory to be at least premature, since economic production has increased notably faster than population since the time of Malthus. The general notion that there is an ultimate limit on the ability of mankind to continue increasing food and goods in proportion to population is still held by many people, especially environmentalists, some of whom who feel that the chief limiting factor will be the inability to dispose of the waste products of industry, leading to a steady degradation of the environment in the absence of population limitation. However, even those that believe this differ widely in their estimates of when this limit will be reached. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A follower of Malthus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The system of Malthusian doctrines relating to population. See Malthusian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence; Malthusianism. See Malthusian. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Designating, or pertaining to, a group of modern economists who hold to the Malthusianism doctrine that permanent betterment of the general standard of living is impossible without decrease of competition by limitation of the number of births. -- Ne`o-Mal*thu"sian, Ne`o-Mal*thu"sian*ism, n. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. stalþe. See Steal, v. t. ] 1. The act of stealing; theft. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The thing stolen; stolen property. [ Obs. ] “Sluttish dens . . . serving to cover stealths.” Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action; -- in either a good or a bad sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The monarch, blinded with desire of wealth,
With steel invades the brother's life by stealth. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

I told him of your stealth unto this wood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Given to stealth; stealthy. [ Obs. ] -- Stealth"ful*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Stealth"ful*ness, n. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a stealthy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state, quality, or character of being stealthy; stealth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Stealthy; sly. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Stealthier superl. Stealthiest. ] Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Withered murder ] with his stealthy pace, . . .
Moves like a ghost. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Unsoundness; disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. [ OE. welthe, from wele; cf. D. weelde luxury. See Weal prosperity. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Weal; welfare; prosperity; good. [ Obs. ] “Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.” 1 Cor. x. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have little wealth to lose. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each day new wealth, without their care, provides. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wealth comprises all articles of value and nothing else. F. A. Walker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Econ.) (a) In the private sense, all property which has a money value. (b) In the public sense, all objects, esp. material objects, which have economic utility. (c) Those energies, faculties, and habits directly contributing to make people industrially efficient; in this sense, specifically called personal wealth. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Active wealth. See under Active. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Riches; affluence; opulence; abundance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of wealth; wealthy; prosperous. [ R. ] Sir T. More. -- Wealth"ful*ly, adv. [R.] [1913 Webster]

adv. In a wealthy manner; richly. [ 1913 Webster ]

I come to wive it wealthily in Padua. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Wealthier superl. Wealthiest. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich. [ 1913 Webster ]

A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. Ps. lxvi. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, ample; full; satisfactory; abundant. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The wealthy witness of my pen. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]