n e a 
ef« building, The healing is various; as of lead, tiles, 
flate, ffiingles, reed, draw, &c. 
HEALTH, / [from heel, Sax.] Freedom from bo¬ 
dily pain or ficknefs.— Health is the faculty of performing 
all' actions proper to a human body, in the mod perfefl 
manner. Ouincy. —Our father is in good health, he is yet 
alive. Gen. 
May be he is not well; 
Infirmity doth ftill negleft all office. 
Whereto our health is bound. Shakefpeare. 
Welfare of mind; purity; goodnefs; principle of fal- 
vationi—There is no health in us. Common Prayer. —The 
beft preservative to keep the mind in health, is the faith¬ 
ful admonition of a friend. Bacon —Salvation fpiritual 
and temporal.—My God, my God, why bald thou for- 
faken me, and art fo far from my health , and from the 
words of my complaint i Pfalms. —With of happinefs 
ufed in drinking; 
Come, love and health to all; 
I drink to th* general joy of the whole table. Shakefpeare. 
For peace at home, and for the public wealth, 
1 mean 40 crown a bowl to Casfar’s health. Dryden. 
All deviations from health are feeds of difeafe\ it ffiould 
therefore be our earlied care to “nip them in the bud.” 
The means of preferving health arife. more from proper 
exercife and regimen, than from the power of medica¬ 
ments!; but as thefe,are highly requifite in refioring health 
when ferioufly invaded, the fubjeft will be fully treated 
of under Medicine. —It may neverthelefs be proper to 
notice here, that every inal-treatment and nuifance tend¬ 
ing to injure the health of an individual, or the' public 
at large, is punidiable by our law. Injuries affecting a 
man’s health, are any unwholefome practices of another, 
whereby a man fudains any apparent damage in his vi¬ 
gour or conditution. As by Felling him bad provifions, 
or wine;' i Rol. Abr. 90. by the carrying on of any noi- 
fome trade, which infefls the air in his neighbourhood ; 
9 Rep. 57. Hut. 135. or by the ffiegleft, or unlkilful ma¬ 
nagement, of his phyfician, furgeon, or apothecary. It 
hath been folemnly refolved, that mala praxis is a great 
mifdemeanor and offence at common-law, whether it be 
for curiofity and experiment, pr by negleft ; becaufe it 
breaks the trud which the party had placed in his phy¬ 
fician, and tends to his dedruttion. Ld. Raym. 214. Thefe 
are wrongs or injuries unaccompanied by force, for which 
there is a remedy in damages, by fpecial aftion of tref- 
pafs on the cafe. 3 Comm. 122. As to offences againd 
the public health of the nation, there are various provi¬ 
fions ; as with refpeft to the plague, fiats. 1 Jac.l. c. 31. 
26 Geo. II. c. 6. 29 Geo. II. c. 8. As to unwholefome pro¬ 
vifions, 51 Hen. 111.fiat. 6. Ord. pro Pifior. c. 7. 12 Car.c. 25. 
HEAL'THFUL, adj. Free from ficknefs.—Adam knew 
no difeafe, fo long as temperance from the forbidden 
fruit fecured him : Nature was his phyfician, and inno¬ 
cence and abdinence would have kept him healthful to 
immortality. South. —Well difpofed : 
Such an exploit have I in hand, 
Had you an healthful ear to hear it. Shakefpeare. 
Wholefome; falubrious.—Many good and healthful airs 
appear by habitation and proofs, that differ not in fmell 
from other airs. Bacon. 
Our healthful food the domach labours thus. 
At fird embracing what it draight doth crulh. Dryden. 
Salutary; productive of falvation.—Pour upon them 
the healthful fpirit of thy grace. Common Prayer. 
HEAL'THFULLY, adv. In health. Wholefomely. 
HEAL'THFULNESS,/. State of being well. Whole- 
fomenefs; falubrious qualities.—You have tadedof that 
cup whereof I have liberally drank, which I look up¬ 
on as God’s phyfic, having that in healthfulnefs which 
it wants in plcafure. King Charles. —To the winds the 
inhabitants of Geneva alcribe the healthfulnefs of their 
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air ; for as the Alps furround them on all fides, there 
would be a condant dagnation of vapours, did not the 
north wind put them in motion. Addifon, 
HEAL'THILY, adv. Without ficknefs or pain. 
HEAI.'THINESS, /. The date of health. 
HEAL'THLESS, adj. Weak; fickly; infirm. Not 
conducive to health.—He that fpends his time in fports, 
is like him whofe garment is all made of fringes, and 
his meat nothing but fauces ; they are healthltfs, charge¬ 
able, and ufelefs. Taylor. 
HE AL'THSOME, ed/.Wholefome; falutary. Not ufed. 
Shall I not then be difled in the vault, 
To whofe foul mouth no healthfome air breathes in, 
And there be drangled ere my Romeo comes t Shakefp. 
HEAL'THY, adj. Enjoying health ; free from fick¬ 
nefs ; hale'; fouqd.—The hulbandman returns from the 
field, and from manuring his ground, drong and healthy , 
becaufe innocent and laborious. South. —Conducive to 
health; wholefome.—Gardeningorhutbandry, and work¬ 
ing in wood, are fit and healthy recreations for a man of 
fiudy or bulinefs. Locke. 
HEAL'THY COVE, a bay of the ifiand of Jamaica, 
on the fouth coad. Lat. 17.44. N. Ion.77.W. Greenwich. 
HEAM, f. In beafls,. the fame as the after-birth in 
women.—Thyme, penny-royal, winter-favory, and com¬ 
mon hore-hound, boiled in white wine, and given to a 
mare, or cow, are edeemed good to expel the heam. 
Dittany, applied in a peffary, expels the heam, as well 
as the dead calf or foal; fo alfo do fennel, hops, favin, 
angelica, &c. 
HEAN, a town of Afia, in the kingdom of Tonquin, 
fituatea on a river, about four days’ journey from the 
fea, where the French have a factory .- it is the reiidence 
of a mandarin. 
HEAP, f. [heap, Sax. hoop , Dut. and Scot.] Many 
fingle things thrown together; a pile ; an accumulation. 
—The dead were fallen down by heaps , one upon another. 
Wifi, xviii.23.—-A crowd; a throng; a rabble.—A cruel 
tyranny ; a heap of vaffals and fiaves, no freemen, no in¬ 
heritance, no dirp or N ancient families. Bacon. —Cluderj 
number driven together: 
An univerfal cry refounds aloud ; 
The failors run in heaps,' a helplefs crowd. Dryden. 
To HEAP, v. a. To throw on heaps; to pile; to throw 
together.— Heap on wood, kindle the fire. Ezek. xxiv. 
10.—To accumulate; to lay up.—Though the wicked 
heap up filver as the dud, and raiment as the clay; but 
the jud ffiall put it on, and the innocent ffiall divide the 
filver. Job, xxvii. 16.—How great the credit was, where¬ 
in that oracle was preferved, may be gathered from the 
vad riches which were there heaped up from the offerings 
of all the Grecian nations. Temple. —To add to fomething 
elfe : 
For thofe of old. 
And the late dignities heap'd up to them. 
We red your hermits. Shakefpeare. 
HEA'PER, f. One that makes piles or heaps. 
HEAP'ING, f. The aft of making heaps; the aft of 
laying up in heaps. 
HEA'PY, adj. Lying in heaps: 
Where a dim gleam the paly lanthorn throws 
O’er the mid pavement heapy rubbiffi grows. Gary. 
Rais’d o’er the heapy wreath, the branching elk 
Lies flumb’ring fullen in the white abyfs. Thomfon. 
To HEAR, v.n. [hyjian, Sax. kooren, Dut.] To en¬ 
joy the fenfe by which founds are didinguifhed. —The 
objeft of hearing is found, whofe variety is fo great, that 
it brings ip admirable dore of intelligence. Holder.— • 
Princes cannot fee far with their own eyes, nor hear with 
their own ears. Temple. —To lide.n; to hearken to; as. 
He heard with great attention : 
