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<p><b>4.</b> <def>Well-disposed; favorable.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Gave <b>healthful</b> welcome to their shipwrecked guests. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Healthfully</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Health"ful*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In health; wholesomely.</def>

<h1>Healthfulness</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Health"ful*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being healthful.</def>

<h1>Healthily</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Health"i*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a healthy manner.</def>

<h1>Healthiness</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Health"i*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.</def>

<h1>Healthless</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Health"less</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm.</def> "A <i>healthless</i> or old age."

<i>Jer. Taylor.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Not conducive to health; unwholesome.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Healthlessness</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Health"less*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being health<?/ess.</def>

<h1>Healthsome</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Health"some</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Wholesome; salubrious.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "<i>Healthsome</i> air."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Healthward</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Health"ward</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a. & adv.</tt> <def>In the direction of health; <as>as, a <ex>healthward</ex> tendency</as>.</def>

<h1>Healthy</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Health"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>Compar.</tt> <er>Healthier</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>superl.</tt> <er>Healthiest</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; <as>as, a <ex>healthy</ex> chid; a <ex>healthy</ex> plant.</as></def>

<blockquote>His mind was now in a firm and <b>healthy</b> state. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Evincing health; <as>as, a <ex>healthy</ex> pulse; a <ex>healthy</ex> complexion.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; <as>as, a <ex>healthy</ex> exercise; a <ex>healthy</ex> climate.</as></def>

<syn>Syn. -- Vigorous; sound; hale; salubrious; healthful; wholesome; salutary.</syn>

<h1>Heam</h1> <Xpage=677>