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 Health n.
 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.”
 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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