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Webster 1913 Edition
Health
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
.Webster 1828 Edition
Health
HEALTH
,Noun.
1.
Sound state of the mind; natural vigor of faculties.2.
Sound state of the mind, in a moral sense; purity; goodness. There is no health in us.
3.
Salvation or divine favor, or grace which cheers God's people. Ps.43,4.
Wish of health and happiness; used in drinking. Come, love and health to all; an elliptical phrase, for, I wish health to you.Definition 2024
health
health
English
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Noun
health (plural healths)
- (obsolete) A warrior; hero; man.
- Drayton (1612)
- They, under false pretence of amity and cheer, the British peers invite, the German healths to view.
- Drayton (1612)
Etymology 2
From Middle English helthe, from Old English hǣlþ, ultimately from West Proto-Germanic *hailiþō, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, hale”). Cognate with Old High German heilida.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- enPR: hĕlth, IPA(key): /hɛlθ/
- Rhymes: -ɛlθ
Noun
health (usually uncountable, plural healths)
- The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness. [from 11th c.]
- I think she suffers from autism, ADHD or some other mental health problem.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
- A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level.
- Physical condition.
- (obsolete) Cure, remedy. [11th-16th c.]
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.XVII, Ch.XI:
- And she myght have a dysshfulle of bloode of a maydyn and a clene virgyne in wylle and in worke, and a kynges doughter, that bloode sholde be her helth, for to anoynte her withall.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.XVII, Ch.XI:
- (countable) A toast to prosperity. [from 17th c.]
- 2002, Joshua Scodel, Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature, page 213:
- Strikingly, however, Waller does not deny but rather revels in the claim that healths lead to excessive drinking
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state of being free of physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction
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physical condition
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overall level of function of an organism
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