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noun

Health n.

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." "Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not be sported with without loss, or regained by courage."

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

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.

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Etymology of 'Health'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Health" Quotes from Famous Books

... assented Lord James, with a propitiatory glance at Dolores. "It's a keen disappointment, I assure you." He looked about at Genevieve. "If you ladies will be so kind— It's a most pressing matter. Er—Griffith is not in the best of health. He may have to take ...

— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet

... "Health to you, eaglets! honorable men of Vilna! What are you up to? What are you busy at?" cried the newcomer, swiftly approaching the table and taking the chair that Pacomius Borisovitch had just ...

— The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations • Julian Hawthorne

... the dead, who are at rest? Pray for the living, in whose breast The struggle between right and wrong Is raging terrible and strong, As when good angels war with devils! This is the Master of the Revels, Who, at Life's flowing feast, proposes The health of absent friends, and pledges, Not in bright goblets crowned with roses, And tinkling as we touch their edges, But with his dismal, tinkling bell. That mocks and mimics ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... ichthyivorous; omophagic, omophagous; pantophagous, phytophagous, xylophagous. Phr. across the walnuts and the wine [Tennyson]; blessed hour of our dinners! [O. Meredith]; now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both! [Macbeth]; who can cloy the hungry edge of ...

— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... that they take a look at the other defense, tactfully led him away, leaving father and son together. They had not seen each other since the Emergency Health Committee meeting. Something of the quack's glossy jauntiness faded out of his bearing as ...

— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

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