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

Heal (hl), 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.

Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves.

Shak.

Heal, n. [AS. hlu, hl. See Heal, v. t.] Health. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Heal"a*ble (-*b'l), a. Capable of being healed.

Heal"all` (-l`), n. (Bot.) A common herb of the Mint family (Brunella vulgaris), destitute of active properties, but anciently thought a panacea.

Heald (hld), n. [CF. Heddle.] A heddle. Ure.

Heal"er (hl"r), n. One who, or that which, heals.

Heal"ful (-fl), a. Tending or serving to heal; healing. [Obs.] Ecclus. xv. 3.

Heal"ing, a. Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words.

Here healing dews and balms abound.

Keble.

Heal"ing*ly, adv. So as to heal or cure.

Health (hlth), n. [OE. helthe, AS. hl˛, fr. hl 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.

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.

Health"ful (-fl), 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.