Word Meanings - LEECHCRAFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art of healing; skill of a physician. Chaucer.

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• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• HEALTHFULLY
  In health; wholesomely.
• SKILLED
  Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
• SKILLIGALEE
  A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army.
• HEALTHLESS
  1. Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm. "A healthless or old age." Jer. Taylor. 2. Not conducive to health; unwholesome.
• HEALTHFUL
  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
• HEALING
  Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words. Here healing dews and balms abound. Keble.
• HEALTHFULNESS
  The state of being healthful.
• HEALD
  A heddle. Ure.
• HEALTHSOME
  Wholesome; salubrious. "Healthsome air." Shak.
• HEALTHWARD
  In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency.
• 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
• HEALINGLY
  So as to heal or cure.
• HEALFUL
  Tending or serving to heal; healing. Ecclus. xv. 3.
• HEALALL
  A common herb of the Mint family , destitute of active properties, but anciently thought a panacea.
• PHYSICIAN
  physician, in F., a natural philosopher, an experimentalist in 1. A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine. 2. Hence, figuratively, one who ministers
• HEALTHILY
  In a healthy manner.
• HEAL
  To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.
• HEALABLE
  Capable of being healed.
• HEALER
  One who, or that which, heals.
• SELF-HEAL
  A blue-flowered labiate plant ; the healall.
• UNSKILLFUL
  1. Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician. 2. Lacking discernment; injudicious; ignorant. Though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve. Shak. --
• DIARRHEAL; DIARRHOEAL
  Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.
• LARYNGOTRACHEAL
  Pertaining to both larynx and trachea; as, the laryngotracheal cartilage in the frog.
• OXHEAL
  See BEAR'S-FOOT
• SHEAL
  See SHEELING